Non-CAS Event
Tuesday, May 9, 2017, 5:30 p.m.
Denver Public Library Conference Center
10 W. Fourteenth Ave. Pkwy. 80204
The early 17th century Selden Map is considered an anomaly among known Chinese antique maps. Although it employed traditional Chinese painting techniques, its primary focus was on the coast and the islands in east and southeast Asia rather than the mainland. Thus, it presents a very different impression of the relationship between the Ming Empire and its adjacent islands and coastal countries from the official world view at that time.
Tianlong Jiao is Josef de Heer Curator of Asian Art at Denver Art Museum. He curated the exhibition of the Selden Map in 2013 when he was the chief curator of Hong Kong Maritime Museum.
In early modern Japan (c. 1590 - 1868), maps as art were primarily decorative, such as six-fold standing screens. However the majority of early modern maps were informational documents of places and spaces, woodblock-printed on sturdy paper of various sizes, meant to be used and studied by many people. This talk will focus on the differences between maps as art and maps as information during this era.
Marcia Yonemoto is Associate Professor of the history department here at CU.