Matteo Ricci’s World Map and the Manchus
Florin-Stefan Morar
Imagined setting. Original map sources.
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The Map of Observing the Mysteries of the Heaven and Earth
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Liaoning Provincial MuseumThe Xuantu, 1603 · Liaoning Provincial Museum, ShenyangSource imageSubtitles
Shenyang photographs by the author. Music: a new instrumental arrangement of a Liaoning Manchu cradle song, notated by Tian Runsheng.