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SUMMARY:Two Views of the Chinese Coast
LOCATION:David Rumsey Map Center (Green Library)\, 557 Escondido Mall
DESCRIPTION:Join us for "Two Views of the Chinese Coast\," a talk by Kären
  Wigen\, the Frances & Charles Field Professor in Stanford's Department o
 f History\, at the David Rumsey Map Center. When cartographic collections
  began to appear online in the 1990s\, historians of East Asia were quick
  to seize on maps as subjects for research. Over the next thirty years\, 
 a sophisticated field of critical map studies developed\, illuminating th
 e lively landscape of cartographic production across the early modern Sin
 osphere. While map-focused research made rapid strides\, a gap gradually 
 opened between cartographic research (the history of maps) and what we mi
 ght call map-informed history (history with maps).\n\nThis talk attempts 
 to address that gap by investigating two works from Stanford University L
 ibraries’ collections: a Qing-era scroll painting of the Pacific coast\, 
 housed in the David Rumsey Map Collection\, and a British map of the same
  shoreline from 1859\, owned by a private collector and held digitally wi
 thin the Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection. During the 19th century\
 , both maps served as tools of military planning\; where the Qing scroll 
 was likely consulted for coastal defense\, the British chart was designed
  for a naval attack. By putting them in dialogue with each other\, the ta
 lk suggests how cross-cultural map comparison can help us tell more compl
 ex\, entangled stories about Euro-Asian interaction.\n\nSpeaker Bio\n\nKä
 ren Wigen teaches Japanese history and the history of cartography. A geo\
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