Speaker
Yannan DING | Associate Professor, Historical Geography, Fudan University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2026-27
Chair/Discussant
Peter K. Bol | Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
Native and European endeavours to map the seas in the eastern part of Asia have left us with a treasure of charts that are diverse in both character and technique. In this talk, I will showcase a few recent studies on early (c. 15-19 century) sea charts from the perspectives of historical geography and history of science. Taken together, they enrich our understandings of the sea as a geographical category and the epistemology with which the sea was experienced, represented, and intepreted.
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