Mr. Selden's Map of China

卜正民（Timothy Brook），加拿大著名汉学家。曾任多伦多大学、斯坦福大学、牛津大学等校教授，现为加拿大英属哥伦比亚大学圣约翰学院院长、历史教授。卜正民还是美国明史学会（Society of Ming Studies）半年期刊《明史研究》（Ming Studies）编委会成员。自2008年起，卜正民成为哈佛大学六卷本《中华帝国史》的主编。卜正民曾于1975年秋进入复旦大学，师从文学批评史学者李庆甲教授学习中国古代文学，1977年，他在李约瑟的安排下参与了《中国的科学与文明》第七分册的编写。卜正民著述颇丰且广受好评，其作品《纵乐的困惑：明代的商业与文化》（The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China）曾获美国亚洲研究学会颁发的列文森奖和加拿大历史学会每五年评选一次的最高历史学奖项弗朗索瓦-泽维尔·加诺奖，《杀千刀：中西视野下的凌迟处死》（Death by a Thousand Cuts）曾获加拿大历史学会颁发的华莱士·弗格森奖，《维梅尔的帽子》（Vermeer's Hat）则获得哥伦比亚大学新闻学院和哈佛大学尼曼新闻基金会联合颁发的马克·林顿历史奖。2006年，卜正民获得古根海姆学者奖。

出版者:Bloomsbury Press

作者:Timothy Brook

页数:240

出版时间:2013-10-22

价格:USD 25.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9781620401439

图书标签:海外中国研究历史history制图cartography英文原版中国近代史东亚研究

Timothy Brook’s award-winning Vermeer’s Hat unfolded the early history of globalization, using Vermeer’s paintings to show how objects like beaver hats and porcelain bowls began to circulate around the world. Now he plumbs the mystery of a single artifact that offers new insights into global connections centuries old.

In 2009, an extraordinary map of China was discovered in Oxford’s Bodleian Library—where it had first been deposited 350 years before, then stowed and forgotten for nearly a century. Neither historians of China nor cartography experts had ever seen anything like it. It was so odd that experts would have declared it a fake—yet records confirmed it had been delivered to Oxford in 1659. The “Selden Map,” as it is known, was a puzzle that needing solving.

Brook, a historian of China, set out to explore the riddle. His investigation will lead readers around this elegant, enigmatic work of art, and from the heart of China, via the Southern Ocean, to the court of King James II. In the story of Selden’s map, he reveals for us the surprising links between an English scholar and merchants half a world away, and offers novel insights into the power and meaning that a single map can hold. Brook delivers the same anecdote-rich narrative, intriguing characters, and unexpected historical connections that made Vermeer’s Hat an instant classic.

读后感

在牛津大学的故纸堆中，发现了第一幅以海洋而非陆地为出发点勾画世界的地图？而这幅地图，竟是用中文标注的？ 之所以用上“竟”字，是因为中国历史的正统书写很容易给我们造成一个印象，即中国与海洋绝缘，大陆文明的气质使我们拥有了闭关锁国的长久历史。从北方的广阔黄土地到...  

从一开始，这就不是一个寻宝的故事，对寻宝故事套路烂熟于心的我一脸惊诧。地图不和宝藏一起捆绑，怎么能勾起读者强烈的好奇心，又怎么保证一本书的销量呢？边看这本书我边思索着这个问题，终究没有找到答案。也许，地图不一定非要和宝藏捆绑在一起才能落入俗套；也许，地图也...  

用户评价

读的是paperback的新版。

Again, a relaxing and informative read from Brook.

不是很好看

不是很好看

fancy的写作，读起来好费劲，当然又没看完。讨论的时候发现大伙对中国的了解少得惊人，关心的也完全不在一个层面。更惊讶的是连中间文本这种概念也没听过，争来争去这本书究竟是啥性质。学术浮躁看来是全球性议题啊。