{"product_id":"east-asian-cartographic-print-culture-alexander-akin-9789463726122","title":"East Asian Cartographic Print Culture: The Late Ming Publishing Boom and Its Trans-Regional Connections","description":"Alexander Akin examines how the expansion of publishing in the late Ming dynasty prompted changes in the nature and circulation of cartographic materials in East Asia. Focusing on mass-produced printed maps, \u003ccite\u003eEast Asian Cartographic Print Culture: The Late Ming Publishing Boom and its Trans-Regional Connections\u003c\/cite\u003e investigates a series of pathbreaking late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century works in genres including geographical education, military affairs, and history, analysing how maps achieved unprecedented penetration among published materials, even in the absence of major theoretical or technological changes like those that transformed contemporary European cartography. By examining contemporaneous developments in neighboring Choson Korea and Japan, this book demonstrates the crucial importance of considering the East Asian sphere in this period as a network of communication and publication, rather than as discrete national units with separate cartographic histories. It also reexamines the Jesuit printing of maps on Ming soil within the broader context of the local cartographic publishing boom and its trans-regional repercussions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alexander Akin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9463726128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789463726122\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Amsterdam University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/06\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 318\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.27lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.29h x 6.38w x 0.87d","brand":"Alexander Akin","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44127592743167,"sku":"9789463726122","price":155.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_42aa6efb-eeb2-4fdd-aeba-3a98aeef2ee3.jpg?v=1687454170","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/east-asian-cartographic-print-culture-alexander-akin-9789463726122","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}