Lecture on the History of East-West Cultural Exchange: Mapping China and Mapping the world
Dr. Marco Caboara (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Dr. Marco Caboara, Senior Lecturer in the History of Cartography and the History of Science, formerly Head of the Special Collections, Lee Shau Kee Library of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, will talk about the rare map collection currently on exhibition at the HKUST library and of his own journey of turning Western maps of China into a book. The HKUST library houses one of the most remarkable collections of maps of China in the world. The new acquisition of Chinese maps has been part of a wider research program about maps of China run by the HKUST library. The culmination of the program has been the publication of Regnum Chinae: The Printed Western Maps of China to 1735, a book by Dr. Caboara was recently published by the Dutch academic publisher Brill. The book features 127 Western printed maps of China from 1584 to 1735 and it has taken him and his team four years to finish.
Date：Friday, January 26, 2024
Time：3:30 – 4:30 p.m.
Venue：C Block Exhibition Foyer, The ISF Academy
Speaker：Dr. Marco Caboara (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Language：English
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About Speaker
Marco Caboara is Senior Lecturer in the History of Cartography and the History of Science at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). Until recently he has been the curator of the Western antique maps of China Collection in the HKUST Library.
Growing up in Genova, where a short walk would bring you from the prison where Marco Polo wrote his Milione to the house of Christopher Columbus, Dr Caboara has cultivated a lifelong interest in travel and especially in the relationship between Europe and China.
He studied History, Linguistics and Chinese at Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Beijing University, and City University of Hong Kong and received my Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle with a study of the linguistic features of Classical Chinese Bamboo Manuscripts. He has been a Research Fellow at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies, Uppsala, Sweden.
Dr Caboara has been developing the library’s map collection and on the present carto-bibliography for the past few years. He has just published a book – Regnum Chinae: The Printed Western Maps of China to 1735 and has presented the earliest stages of the book project at major international map conferences in Amsterdam, Berlin, Macau and Shanghai.
