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Title
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Chinese Qing Empire's Mapping of the Northwestern Border
Description
An account of the resource
This collection is a series of Chinese Qing Empire (1644-1911)’s maps on its north-western borderline from the 18th century to 19th century. These maps show how the Qing Empire manipulated power on the newly conquered territory and how the Empire gradually failed its competition on territory with the Russian Empire (1721–1917). The time span of this collection covers the period of transformation in late imperial China: Western ideas and techniques were introduced, and the Chinese court and literati gradually tried to assimilate them into traditional framework of knowledge. The case of maps and cartography was no exception. In my final project, I plan to explore how the court and literati used and perceived maps.
Historical Map
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URL or Unique Identifier
https://lccn.loc.gov/gm71005141
http://digitalatlas.asdc.sinica.edu.tw/map_detail.jsp?id=A103000082
Cartographer
Unknown
Engraver
Unknown
Lithographer
Unknown
Date Published
1864
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Title
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Map of the New Domination
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Unknown
Publisher
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Chongwen Bookstore of the Hubei Province
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1864
Language
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Chinese
Description
An account of the resource
This map is an engraved map of the Chinese Qing Dynasty’s New Domination Province. Published around the 1860s, this map still follows the techniques of traditional Chinese Cartography. The grids on the maps help cartographer represent the landscapes on the map following a specific scale. Latitude and Longitude are not shown on this map. The cartographer depicts borders, mountains, deserts, lakes, waterways, towns, forts, and place names. This map shows the relative locations of landscapes rather than absolute locations. Although some map symbols are applied, the monochrome printing makes all the symbols hard to discern.
At the left side of the map, the cartographer uses words to record the distance between major towns, postal relay stations, and strategic points. The long name list starts from the postal relay station near the capital of the adjacent Gansu province and ends at Hotan (Hetian).
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Province
forts
Hydronym
lakes
mountains
Place Names
towns
water bodies
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Title
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Britain Colonial Mapping of Western Palestine in the Ottoman period
Description
An account of the resource
The Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF) of Great Britain conducted an extensive survey of Western Palestine from 1872-1877, during the Ottoman period. While the fund was headed by religious figures and academics, there was also involvement from the British government. Essentially, the religious and academic associations of the fund may have served as a front to allow the British government to collect intelligence on the region. For example, the British Foreign Office had documented involvement in the production and funding of the survey project, which increased with the Russo-Turkian War (1877-78). This survey was the most detailed and technologically advanced to date and was ultimately employed by the British in their invasion of Palestine in WWI.
In addition to its attention to topographic detail, this mapping project is notable for its area of focus. Unlike other maps produced by Western colonial powers at the time, such as France and Germany, this map focuses exclusively on an area west of the Jordan river. Uncannily, its borders resemble those of the future British Mandate (1920-1948). The survey is also careful to include the significant holy sites of the New Testament.
After the maps production, the British Foreign Office required that the PEF delay the publication of the maps for a year to control the dispersal of sensitive intelligence information.
Thus, these maps should be evaluated both as products of academic and religious scholarship and as tools in the British colonial enterprise.
Subject
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Detailed geographical survey of Western Palestine with additional layers depicting religious holy sites, Arabic places
Historical Map
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Cartographer
Conder, C.R. (Claude Reignier)
Kitchener, H.R. (Horatio Herbert)
Type
individual map, atlas sheet, book figure, part of bound collection, born-digital
index map
Collection
Name of collection of which the map is a part
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
URL or Unique Identifier
http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~240963~5512342?qvq=q%3Apalestine%2Bexploration%2Bfund%3Bsort%3Apub_list_no_initialsort%2Cpub_list_no_initialsort%2Cpub_list_no_initialsort%2Cpub_date%3Blc%3ARUMSEY~8~1&mi=3&trs=58
Date Published
1880
Date Depicted
1872-1877
Engraver
Ordinance Survey Office
Call Number
6930.000
Format notes
Scale 1:
620,000
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Title
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Topographical and Geographical Terms in Arabic (and English
Description
An account of the resource
This map presents the place names of western Palestine in Arabic and explains their meaning in a key on the side. It also marks the location of Arabic villages, churches and mosques. It is a notable that this map is included to the Palestine Exploration Fund Survey because it acknowledges the development of an indigenous culture in the region since the time of the new testament.
The New Testament seems to color the surveyors' interaction with the land in the remainder of the collection so I hope to study the ways that it has seeped into this map as well. Notably, unlike the other maps in the survey, this map appears less technologically advanced and does not include topography lines. It might be less useful as an orienting tool for the military and might instead represent the academic interests behind the survey.
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
The region of Ottoman-era Palestine west of the Jordan River
arabic place names
arabic transcribed to english
camp
greenery
infrastructure
key
numbers
religious buildings
vehicles
water bodies