Not Just a Jesuit Atlas of China: Qing Imperial Cartography and Its European Connections
status: published
Restituting Church Buildings and Negotiating Church Factions: Missionary Mapmakers and the Making of Local Networks (171...
At the turn of the 18th century, the Kangxi emperor initiated a large project to map the vast territories of the Qing. The land surveys that ensued were executed by teams of Qing officials and European missionaries, most of them French Jesuits first sent to China in 1685 and actively supported by the French crown. Early 18th century Jesuit publicat...
