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Martino Martini
卫匡国Martino Martini is a major figure in the history of Chinese studies, with work spanning history, material culture. This dossier distinguishes the person's scholarship from what can—and cannot—yet be verified about the Chinese name.
1614—1661Italy
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Martino Martini's importance lies especially in presenting Chinese history and geography to European readers. Drawing on Chinese maps and local gazetteers, he helped provide seventeenth-century Europe with a comparatively systematic, province-by-province account of China's geography.
His contribution was closer to historical geography and cartography than Ricci's. It helped transform China from a vague distant image into a space that could be described through provinces, cities, rivers, and historical change.
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