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- Title
Displacing China: The Martini-Blaeu Novus Atlas Sinensis and the Late Renaissance Shift in Representations of East Asia.
- Authors
Cams, Mario
- Abstract
In the mid-seventeenth century, as the first full atlas of East Asia became available on the European book market, a dramatic shift took place in textual and visual representations of the Far East. The atlas, titled "Novus Atlas Sinensis" (1655), was the product of a cooperation between Joan Blaeu, who headed one of Europe's foremost commercial publishing houses, and Martino Martini, a prominent Jesuit missionary to China. This study shows how the Martini-Blaeu atlas thoroughly challenged the worldview of late Renaissance audiences by tracing and reconstructing a series of displacements that facilitated its production process.
- Subjects
CHINA; NOVUS Atlas Sinensis (Book); ATLASES; EAST-West divide; BLAEU, Joan; MARTINI, Martino; SEVENTEENTH century; JESUIT missions; CHRISTIAN missions; ASIA description &; travel
- Publication
Renaissance Quarterly, 2020, Vol 73, Issue 3, p953
- ISSN
0034-4338
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/rqx.2020.123