MacLean Collection - Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library

September 12, 2025
Mimi Cheng

Tracing the Copy

Two maps of Beijing from the MacLean Collection

January 16, 2025
Katherine Anne Paul

A Jain Cosmographic Map of the Rose‑Apple Continent (Jambudvipa)

Explore the cosmos and the world-spaces of the Jain religion

May 20, 2025
Mario Cams

Copying Maps East Asia Map Chat

Studying one particular copy of an eighteenth-century map of the Ming Empire opens up a genealogy of printed maps

July 30, 2021
Richard Pegg

Zhuang Tingfu: Cartographic Encounters and Echoes

In the late eighteenth century, an encounter between European and Chinese cartography left clues about the diffusion of geographic knowledge

December 15, 2023
Amberly Yeo

A World(view) Transformed by War

See how the Qing Empire’s mapping of world geography changed during and after the imposition of European power in the Opium Wars

June 30, 2022
Elke Papelitzky

A Japanese Map of the World

In this interactive Map Chat from the MacLean Collection, learn more about how Japanese mapmakers saw the world in late 18th and early 19th centuries

March 16, 2022
Mirela Altic

Rediscovering a Map of the Amazon

A 1755 map created by a German Jesuit missionary for the Portuguese Empire casts new light on early European efforts to map the Amazon River valley

May 18, 2022
Anne-Sophie Pratte

A Qing Dynasty Imperial Route Map

Travel alongside the Qianlong Emperor in this interactive tour of a map nearly twenty feet long

April 6, 2021
Richard Pegg

Unique Perspectives on Kyoto

The curator of the MacLean Collection examines graphic representations of urban Japan from the Tokugawa period

January 11, 2023
Richard Pegg

Korean Yeojido Atlases

How did Korean cartography evolve in the Joseon period? Explore this interactive Map Chat from the MacLean Collection to learn more about a fascinating collection of atlases.