Colours on East Asian Maps Their Use and Materiality in China, Japan and Korea between the Mid-17th and Early 20th Century

• Main Author: Lange, Diana (auth)
• Other Authors: Hahn, Oliver (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Brill 2023
• Subjects: Historical maps & atlases; colourants; colouring; dyes and pigments; map production and publishing; map production; map publishing; maps and colours; non-invasive scientific methods
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

With a multi-perspective approach and transdisciplinary methods (humanities and sciences), this book offers an in-depth and systematic study of hand-drawn and hand-coloured maps from East Asia. Map colouring provides an insight into past societies, landscapes and territories. Colour is an important...