- 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
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- July 30, 2023
- Radu Leca
Divergent Meanings of Place in Mapping Japan: La Pérouse’s Tangential Encounter
When a French captain sailed past Japan in the late eighteenth century, a guess about toponyms set off a century of cartographic confusions
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- December 17, 2024
- John W. Mackey
Practical Knowledge and the New Republic
Learn about the intricacies of Carleton’s 1795 map from Dr. John W. Mackey, a Master Lecturer of Social Sciences in the College of General Studies at Boston University.
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- 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
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- 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
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- September 12, 2025
- Mimi Cheng
Tracing the Copy
Two maps of Beijing from the MacLean Collection
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