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MAP & MEDIA
CULTURAL HISTORY OF MAP READING

Dr. HILDE de WEERDT
University of Oxford, Lecturer in Chinese History

Friday, 22 February 2008 at 7.30pm

Dr. de Weerdt discusses the first printed maps of the Chinese Empire dated to the 12th Century. Comparing early examples of maps in print to monumental Imperial maps on stone steles and to the first printed  European atlases, she demonstrates how the pedagogical interests of the first Chinese printers of maps inspired the articulation of specific ways in which map viewers were to navigate and understand maps.