MAPAS DE MACAU DOS SÉCULOS XVI E XVII. INVENTÁRIO, DESCRIÇÃO E ANÁLISE COMPARATIVA DE ESPÉCIMES CARTOGRÁFICOS EUROPEUS E CHINESES16 - 17世紀的澳門地圖：中國與歐洲地圖繪制特點之對比分析
The article proposes an inventory, brief description, and comparative analysis of the principal European and Chinese cartographic specimens from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that depict Macau, privileging maps, plans, and views with sufficient scale to apprehend the urban footprint and/or...
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| Published in: | Review of Culture |
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Instituto Cultural de Macau
January 2006
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| Online Access: | https://www.icm.gov.mo/rc/viewer/pdfViewerParts/40017/3780 |
| Summary: | The article proposes an inventory, brief description, and comparative analysis of the principal European and Chinese cartographic specimens from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that depict Macau, privileging maps, plans, and views with sufficient scale to apprehend the urban footprint and/or relevant architectural elements. Building upon the image collections and catalogues assembled in reference works (especially the compilations of Charles R. Boxer and Luís Silveira, as well as the contributions of Armando Cortesão and Avelino Teixeira da Mota), the authors synthesize the state of knowledge concerning these visual testimonies, highlighting that, although less studied than eighteenth- and nineteenth-century cartography, the production of the sixteenth–seventeenth centuries constitutes one of the rare preserved contemporary records of the territory's early days.
The methodology rests upon bibliographic triangulation and a historical-cartographic reading oriented toward the identification of origin, "fortune," and reappropriation of models. The results evince that the circulation of the "European model" associated with Pedro Barreto de Resende was decisively reconfigured by Chinese draughtsmen or appropriated as specific information by actors connected to central power. Conversely, the analysis reveals Chinese influences welcomed into Western cartography, namely in the incorporation of the outline of the delta of the Western Rivers and of the lines pertaining to the Macau peninsula in manuscripts attributed to Portuguese authors. |
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| ISSN: | 1682-1106 |