Mapping Asia: Cartographic Encounters Between East and West

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Mapping Asia: Cartographic Encounters Between East and West is written by Martijn Storms and published by Springer. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 331990406X (ISBN 10) and 9783319904061 (ISBN 13).

This proceedings book presents the first-ever cross-disciplinary analysis of 16th–20th century South, East, and Southeast Asian cartography. The central theme of the conference was the mutual influence of Western and Asian cartographic traditions, and the focus was on points of contact between Western and Asian cartographic history. Geographically, the topics were limited to South Asia, East Asia and Southeast Asia, with special attention to India, China, Japan, Korea and Indonesia. Topics addressed included Asia’s place in the world, the Dutch East India Company, toponymy, Philipp Franz von Siebold, maritime cartography, missionary mapping and cadastral mapping.