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"Embracing Asia: The Cartographic Imagination of the Early Modern World through Asian Eyes" A Talk by Kären Wigen

Please join us on Monday, October 10, 2016 in UC Irvine's Humanities Gateway (HG) 1010, 4-5:30 pm for talk titled "Embracing Asia: The Cartographic Imagination of the Early Modern World through Asian Eyes" by Kären Wigen.

The idea of Asia as a “continent” was introduced to the Chinese-reading world by the Jesuits. But how did Asians see themselves in the world? This visually rich lecture surveys how Japanese and other mapmakers responded with their own imaginative syntheses of Buddhist cosmology and Matteo Ricci’s geographical categories in popular prints from the 17th to the early 19th centuries.

Kären Wigen is the Frances and Charles Field Professor of History at Stanford University.  The co-author, with Martin Lewis, of The Myth of Continents: A Critique of Metageography (1997), her most recent books are,  as author, A Malleable Map: Geographies of Restoration in Central Japan, 1600-1912 (2010), and, as co-editor, Cartographic Japan: A History in Maps (2016).

This event is presented by UC Irvine's Humanities Commons.

This event is free and open to the public.