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Article Dans Une Revue Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities (Östasiatiska Museet) Année : 2001

Mapping 'Ancient' Chinese Antarctica

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I examine how modern cartography may support the traditional perception of the Chinese landscape by studying the rendition of that environment as far away from China as geographically possible. I discuss the ways in which map-readers can combine the metaphors of geomancy and modernity when they compare the maps that Chinese scientists have compiled on King George Island, Antarctica. Connotations, suggestions and discrepancies in the naming of the island features play a crucial role in my construction of a coherent system for the ancient interpretation of a newly built landscape. I can therefore explain how the metaphorical cartography of a site has assisted in creating a cultural environment that has subjectively displaced the physical environment of insular Antarctica.

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hal-02524526 , version 1 (30-03-2020)

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Philippe Forêt. Mapping 'Ancient' Chinese Antarctica. Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities (Östasiatiska Museet), 2001, 73, pp.193-215. ⟨hal-02524526⟩
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