General Taiwan Map of Kangxi
The General Taiwan Map of Kangxi is the earliest known surviving single scroll map of Taiwan in China, with a horizontal length of 536 cm and a vertical width of 66 cm. This map was drawn during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty. The exact year of the drawing is unknown. However, scholars generally agree that it was during the 38th to 43rd (1699-1704) year of the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty..[1]. The Qing court commissioned Western missionaries to measure the topography of Taiwan, which Chinese landscape painters then drew[1]
The General Taiwan Map of Kangxi is a long horizontal scroll drawn with traditional Chinese landscape techniques. The map presents a bird’s-eye view of western Taiwan from west to east over the Taiwan Strait, with north on the left and south on the right. The map’s content is a realistic depiction of the 17th and 18th centuries, including the mountainous terrain and rivers in western Taiwan from north to south, the deployment of administrative armaments, roads, urban and rural life, and other landscapes. This map is the epitome of social and cultural life in Taiwan during this period and the knowledge of Taiwan’s geography in the early Qing Dynasty. It also serves as a geographic, armament, and customs map. It is an essential collection of the National Taiwan Museum.[2][3]
This map was purchased by the Governor-General of Taiwan from the Cheng family in Hsinchu in 1902 (Meiji year 35) during the Japanese rule in Taiwan as a collection of the National monument of Taiwan. After the end of the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Government of the Republic of China took over Taiwan; the collections of other Taiwan Governor’s Palace Museums were taken over by the National Taiwan Museum[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "康熙臺灣輿圖". 2023-04-26. Archived from the original on 2022-06-16. Retrieved 2022-07-29.
- ↑ 國立中央圖書館臺灣分館特藏資料編纂委員會 (1992). 《臺灣文獻書目解題第二種地圖類（一）》 (國立中央圖書館臺灣分館 ed.). 臺北市. p. 24. Search this book on
- ↑ 翁, 佳音 (2007). 康熙臺灣輿圖-歷史調查研究報告. 台北市: 國立臺灣博物館. ISBN 9789860118186. Search this book on
- ↑ 國立中央圖書館臺灣分館特藏資料編纂委員會 (1992). 《臺灣文獻書目解題第二種地圖類（一）》 (國立中央圖書館臺灣分館 ed.). 臺北市. p. 23. Search this book on
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