曼斯缪·奎尼，意大利著名汉学家，卫匡国研究中心研究员，热那亚大学人文与哲学系地理学教师，同时也是意大利地理学研究的主要理论家之一。其科学著作《马克思主义、地理学与人文地理学的重构》被译成数种语言.他主要研究历史地理学、制图史和疆域史。 米歇尔·卡斯特诺威，1968年出生于萨沃纳，是热那亚大学人文与哲学系历史地理研究员。卡斯特诺威是一位航海史专家，也是意大利历史地图研究所成员，同时也是一本评论杂志的编委会成员。 汪前进，中国科学院自然科学史研究所研究员，地图史专家。

曼斯缪·奎尼，意大利著名汉学家，卫匡国研究中心研究员，热那亚大学人文与哲学系地理学教师，同时也是意大利地理学研究的主要理论家之一。其科学著作《马克思主义、地理学与人文地理学的重构》被译成数种语言.他主要研究历史地理学、制图史和疆域史。 米歇尔·卡斯特诺威，1968年出生于萨沃纳，是热那亚大学人文与哲学系历史地理研究员。卡斯特诺威是一位航海史专家，也是意大利历史地图研究所成员，同时也是一本评论杂志的编委会成员。 汪前进，中国科学院自然科学史研究所研究员，地图史专家。

This 1996 collection examines the discovery of plants and peoples of the Pacific in the eighteenth century by European scientists and travellers. The contributors conceptualise the process of discovery, which involved active cultural solutions to problems of representation, rather than mere collection and passive depiction. These solutions both reflected and created visions of ...(展开全部)

The simplest purpose of a map is a rational one: to educate, to solve a problem, to point someone in the right direction. Maps shape and communicate information, for the sake of improved orientation. But maps exist for states as well as individuals, and they need to be interpreted as expressions of power and knowledge, as Steven Seegel makes clear in his impressive and importan...(展开全部)

The simplest purpose of a map is a rational one: to educate, to solve a problem, to point someone in the right direction. Maps shape and communicate information, for the sake of improved orientation. But maps exist for states as well as individuals, and they need to be interpreted as expressions of power and knowledge, as Steven Seegel makes clear in his impressive and importan...(展开全部)

David Martin Jones examines how China has been portrayed in European and subsequently North American social and political thought and what, if anything, this depiction tells us about the character of this thought. Such a question immediately evokes the spectre of orientalism and subsequent chapters explore whether the identification of an orientalist project invalidates the kno...(展开全部)

David Martin Jones examines how China has been portrayed in European and subsequently North American social and political thought and what, if anything, this depiction tells us about the character of this thought. Such a question immediately evokes the spectre of orientalism and subsequent chapters explore whether the identification of an orientalist project invalidates the kno...(展开全部)

Challenging assumptions about science fiction’s Western origins, Nathaniel Isaacson traces the development of the genre in China, from the late Qing Dynasty through the New Culture Movement. Through careful examination of a wide range of visual and print media—including historical accounts of the institutionalization of science, pictorial representations of technological innova...(展开全部)

Challenging assumptions about science fiction’s Western origins, Nathaniel Isaacson traces the development of the genre in China, from the late Qing Dynasty through the New Culture Movement. Through careful examination of a wide range of visual and print media—including historical accounts of the institutionalization of science, pictorial representations of technological innova...(展开全部)