Speaker's Bio: Ron Po is a historian of late imperial China from the fourteenth to the early twentieth centuries. More than a long-forgotten illustrative account, the map in question is a piece of evidence that reveals much about the times and places in which it was drawn and viewed. 1850s-1900s) when China was forced to join the global bandwagon of trade and diplomacy. Additionally, finding this quantu has provided an occasion to revisit the age of high imperialism (ca.
However, this paper is not merely about one single object it also discusses the life histories attached to the map, such as those of Thomas Dunn and other people who intersected with the quantu. It is extremely rare to find a map from late imperial China as delicate and artistic as this quantu, which offers deep insights into the history of maritime visual culture, the seascape of Fuzhou, and the Qing’s coastal defence and maritime engagement as it was conceptualised at the time. Records only show that it entered the Library of Congress as part of a large donation of manuscripts from Thomas Dunn, an American businessman and politician who spent several years in the Qing empire. Its creator remains anonymous and the document is undated, which prevents us from tracing its origin in a straightforward way. Found in 2011 amidst the stacks of the Library of Congress, the quantu had lain undisturbed for over a century. Po, London School of Economics and Political Science. He will be speaking on "The Dunn Map: An American and a Long-forgotten Curio from Nineteenth-Century China."Ībstract: The Fusheng quantu (A Complete Map of Fuzhou) is thought to have been produced in nineteenth-century China.
For our next seminar, we're delighted to host Prof. The theme this year is the history of the Pacific World.
#Long forgotten fields 2018 series
The Department of History of Lingnan University (Hong Kong) is pleased to continue its Distinguished Speaker Series this year 2022/23.
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