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Podcast: New Books in Italian Studies
Episode: Mario Cams and Elke Papelitzky, "Remapping the World in East Asia: Toward a Global History of the 'Ricci Maps'" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)
Description: When we think of the sixteenth-century arrival of European missionaries in East Asia, there is a tendency to imagine this meeting as a civilizational clash, a great meeting of two fixed cultures. This clash is symbolized in the âRicci map(s)â: a map created by a Jesuit missionary to bring scientific cartography to East Asia. Remapping the World in East Asia: Toward a Global History of the âRicci Mapsâ (Hawaiâi University Press, 2024) rethinks these maps and this encounter. By taking a global approach, Remapping the World in East Asia explores how the âRicci map,â far from being one map by one man, wa...