Mapping China and Managing the World: Culture, Cartography and Cosmology in Late Imperial Times (Asia's Transformations: Critical Asian Scholarship, 9, Band 9) - Hardcover

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Richard J. Smith is currently George and Nancy Rupp Professor of Humanities emeritus, a Baker Institute Scholar, and a Research Professor at the Chao Center for Asian Studies, Rice University. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the Center for Asian Studies, University of Texas, Austin, and a member of several professional advisory boards. A specialist in modern Chinese history and traditional Chinese culture, Smith also has strong interests in transnational, global and comparative studies. He has published nine single-authored books, the most recent of which is 'The Qing Dynasty and Traditional Chinese Culture' (2015). He has also co-edited or co-authored eight volumes, the most recent of which are 'Reexamining the Sinosphere: Cultural Transmissions and Transformations in East Asia' (2020) and 'Rethinking the Sinosphere: Poetics, Aesthetics, and Identity Formation' (2020).