Mario Cams
Biographic Data
| ID | 5921352 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mario Cams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mario |
| FAMILY NAME | Cams |
| SIGNATURE | CAMS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | KU Leuven |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5262-2205 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Giulio Aleni's map sheet
Japan's Kobe City Museum holds a unique yet overlooked xylographic print of an early seventeenth-century composition that centres on a Chinese-language world map, mounted as a scroll. At first glance, the scroll seems to contain a copy of a well-known composition attributed to the Jesuit Giulio Aleni that is extant at two Italian libraries. It is known in the literature as Wanguo quantu 萬國全圖, after the title of only one of three constitutive part…
A Global Turn for the History of East Asian Maps
status: Published online
The Confusions of Space
This study presents a typology of Ming-era printed and comprehensive works of geography over the course of the fifteenth, sixteenth, and early seventeenth centuries. It traces how state-led efforts at defining imperial space in the Da Ming yitong zhi (1461) were gradually displaced by the competing spatial constructs found in the scholarly atlas and the commercial guidebook. Finally, following wider trends in the late Ming book market at the turn…
Reimagining Qing Space
A series of unusually large atlases produced by and for the Qing court during the eighteenth century reflect the court's growing desire for new representations of its imperial space as it projected its power and influence into Inner and Central Asia. The first of these, printed in several editions at the end of the Kangxi period (1662-1722), followed empire-wide land surveys covering the Manchu homelands up to the Amur River, all of the Chinese p…
Displacing China
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 th…
Global Entanglements of a Man Who Never Traveled
status: Published
Mapping Asia
Not Just a Jesuit Atlas of China
In the literature, the ‘Overview Maps of Imperial Territories’ or Huangyu quanlan tu 皇輿全覽圖, is mostly referred to as ‘the Jesuit atlas of China’. The reason is that this early eighteenth-century atlas of all Qing China’s territories plus Korea and Tibet is assumed to have resulted from European missionaries importing European cartographic practices. In this essay, I argue that this view is outdated and can no longer be sustained. By revisiting th…
Recent Additions to the New Qing History Debate
status: Published
Companions in Geography’
status: Published
The China Maps of Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d’Anville
By 1735, Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d’Anville had produced forty-one maps of the Qing Empire, or China, a process significantly more complex than scholars have hitherto appreciated. A close study of d’Anville’s maps and their originals has revealed their relationship with the different versions of a Chinese atlas, the first of which was completed early in 1718, the outcome of nearly a decade of collaborative surveying between officials of the Qing…
Not Just a Jesuit Atlas of China
In the literature, the ‘Overview Maps of Imperial Territories’ or Huangyu quanlan tu 皇輿全覽圖, is mostly referred to as ‘the Jesuit atlas of China’. The reason is that this early eighteenth-century atlas of all Qing China’s territories plus Korea and Tibet is assumed to have resulted from European missionaries importing European cartographic practices. In this essay, I argue that this view is outdated and can no longer be sustained. By revisiting th…
Companions in Geography’
status: Published
The China Maps of Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d’Anville
By 1735, Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d’Anville had produced forty-one maps of the Qing Empire, or China, a process significantly more complex than scholars have hitherto appreciated. A close study of d’Anville’s maps and their originals has revealed their relationship with the different versions of a Chinese atlas, the first of which was completed early in 1718, the outcome of nearly a decade of collaborative surveying between officials of the Qing…
Recent Additions to the New Qing History Debate
status: Published
Not Just a Jesuit Atlas of China
In the literature, the ‘Overview Maps of Imperial Territories’ or Huangyu quanlan tu 皇輿全覽圖, is mostly referred to as ‘the Jesuit atlas of China’. The reason is that this early eighteenth-century atlas of all Qing China’s territories plus Korea and Tibet is assumed to have resulted from European missionaries importing European cartographic practices. In this essay, I argue that this view is outdated and can no longer be sustained. By revisiting th…
Mapping Asia
Global Entanglements of a Man Who Never Traveled
status: Published
Displacing China
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 th…
The Confusions of Space
This study presents a typology of Ming-era printed and comprehensive works of geography over the course of the fifteenth, sixteenth, and early seventeenth centuries. It traces how state-led efforts at defining imperial space in the Da Ming yitong zhi (1461) were gradually displaced by the competing spatial constructs found in the scholarly atlas and the commercial guidebook. Finally, following wider trends in the late Ming book market at the turn…
Reimagining Qing Space
A series of unusually large atlases produced by and for the Qing court during the eighteenth century reflect the court's growing desire for new representations of its imperial space as it projected its power and influence into Inner and Central Asia. The first of these, printed in several editions at the end of the Kangxi period (1662-1722), followed empire-wide land surveys covering the Manchu homelands up to the Amur River, all of the Chinese p…
A Global Turn for the History of East Asian Maps
status: Published online
Giulio Aleni's map sheet
Japan's Kobe City Museum holds a unique yet overlooked xylographic print of an early seventeenth-century composition that centres on a Chinese-language world map, mounted as a scroll. At first glance, the scroll seems to contain a copy of a well-known composition attributed to the Jesuit Giulio Aleni that is extant at two Italian libraries. It is known in the literature as Wanguo quantu 萬國全圖, after the title of only one of three constitutive part…
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