A Study on the Map of the Upper Reaches of the Yangtze River in the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China

About This Novel

This book starts from the perspective of "knowledge and institutional transformation in modern China" and examines the historical process of chart compilation of the upper reaches of the Yangtze River during the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China. It re-evaluates the textual value of the traditional chart of the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, and then considers the interactive relationship between the transformation of modern waterway chart compilation and the changes in Sichuan River shipping. Research shows that modern Chinese cartography's recognition and acceptance of Western surveying and mapping technology and cartographic knowledge was a rather complex process of "localized" knowledge production involving Western cultural communicators and local mapmakers. Only by fully understanding the complexity between "tradition" and "modernity" can we truly reconstruct the interpretation system of "modernity" issues in Chinese cartographic history. At the same time, only by compromising "comprehensive modernity" and "local tradition" and paying attention to the creation process of "modern tradition" since the late Qing Dynasty can we rediscover the historical path and specific way for Chinese society to move toward "modernity."

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