TIBET - HUANG, Peiqiao (comp.).

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Xizang quan tu ("A Complete Map of Tibet"). A late-Qing map of Tibet, incorporating the research of the scholar-official Huang Peiqiao, whose Xizang Tukao (1886) is one of the most detailed 19th-century Chinese sources on the geography and culture of Tibet. The map represents recent Chinese advances in scientific cartography, the grid marking the longitudinal layout of this important part of the Qing frontier.This example is closely related to the four-page map found in Huang's study, but is engraved here as one continuous block and likely represents one of the trial versions executed during the book's preparation.Provenance: exhibited in "The World on Paper: From Square to Sphericity", Hong Kong Maritime Museum, December 2019 - March 2020.

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