Asian Art Museum, 2016. Paperback. New oversized softcover in matte printed wraps. (8 x 0.2 x 10 inches) Pages are clean and free of marks or underlining. Includes bibliography, photos, and illustrations. 64 pp.

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ISBN: 9780939117727

Global exploration in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries led to new interactions between Europe and Asia. Jesuit priests were instrumental in spreading knowledge of the world to China and information about China to Europe. China at the Center focuses on two masterpieces of seventeenth-century map-making - the 1602 world map by Matteo Ricci and the 1674 world map by Ferdinand Verbiest - that illustrate this exchange of information. Both maps tell fascinating stories about the way the world was conceived in their time. In China at the Center, these maps are examined as objects of cross-cultural collaboration between the fascinating men who were instrumental in their production and the scholars of the Chinese courts.

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