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How did Asia come to be represented on European World maps? When and how did Asian Countries adopt a continental system for understanding the world? How did countries with disparate mapping traditions come to share a basic understanding and vision of the globe? This series of essays organized into sections on Jesuit Circuits of Communication and Publication; Jesuit World Maps in Chinese; Reverberations of Matteo Ricci's Maps in East Asia; and Reflections on the Curation of Cartographic Knowledge, go a long way toward answering these questions about the shaping of our modern understandings of the world.

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Laura Hostetler, PhD (1995), University of Pennsylvania, is Professor of History and Global Asian Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research interests include the history of cartography, empire, and encounters between Europe and Asia.

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