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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Dear colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">On December 5th at 6:00 pm (CET), Dr. Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann (CNRS, Paris; Fellow at the Einstein Center Chronoi and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science) will present a talk titled “Visualizing Time-Space
in East Asia: Mapping ‘Round Heavens & Square Earth’ from Ancient Rotating Devices to Late Modern Commercial Maps.” Dr. Dorofeeva-Lichtmann will explore the ancient Chinese concept of ‘Round Heavens & Square Earth’ and its representation in Korean atlases.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Please more information on the lecture series and the
<b>Zoom link</b> to the lecture, please check: <a href="https://www.bbaw.de/veranstaltungen/veranstaltung-visualising-time-space-in-east-asia?tx_news_pi1%5Baction%5D=detail&tx_news_pi1%5Bcontroller%5D=News&cHash=197af5303aa17a05271a5ef629687e41">
https://www.bbaw.de/veranstaltungen/veranstaltung-visualising-time-space-in-east-asia?tx_news_pi1%5Baction%5D=detail&tx_news_pi1%5Bcontroller%5D=News&cHash=197af5303aa17a05271a5ef629687e41</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US">Below is the Abstract:<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Early Chinese astrological devices, shi </span>
<span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family:DengXian">式</span><span lang="EN-US">/</span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family:DengXian">栻</span><span lang="EN-US"> , usually translated as
</span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family:DengXian">“</span><span lang="EN-US">cosmographs,</span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family:DengXian">”</span><span lang="ZH-CN">
</span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family:DengXian">“</span><span lang="EN-US">diviners</span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family:DengXian">’</span><span lang="EN-US"> boards,</span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family:DengXian">”</span><span lang="EN-US">
or more recently as </span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family:DengXian">“</span><span lang="EN-US">diviners</span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family:DengXian">’</span><span lang="EN-US"> mantic astrolabes</span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family:DengXian">”</span><span lang="EN-US">
or simply </span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family:DengXian">“</span><span lang="EN-US">cosmic models,</span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family:DengXian">”</span><span lang="EN-US"> are known from the 2nd century BC. Made of lacquered wood, these portable
instruments consist of a static square plate, representing the Earth, and a rotating disc placed on top of it, representing the Heavens.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Development of “commercial” printing for commoners in late imperial China gave rise to schematic cosmographic maps (ca. early 17th century, onwards). Their structure strikingly resembles shi, with the difference that
the square Earth is placed in the centre of the round Heavens. These maps were then transmitted to Korea. They apparently served as one of inspirations of the circular world maps found in popular Korean atlases (18th-19th centuries).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The aim of this presentation is to show how the ancient Chinese concept of ‘Round Heavens & Square Earth’ visualised as a time-space relationship continued to be in use in East Asia until the beginning of the 20th century,
co-existing with modern Western science.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Jing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-fareast-language:DE">Hu, Jing
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:DengXian">胡靜</span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-size:9.0pt">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt">(</span><span lang="KO" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Malgun Gothic",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:KO">호정</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Malgun Gothic",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:KO">)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt">[sie/ihr; she/her]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-fareast-language:DE">East Asia Department · Subject Specialist for Korean Studies
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-fareast-language:DE">Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-fareast-language:DE">10785 Berlin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-fareast-language:DE"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-fareast-language:DE">+49 30 266 436 110<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-fareast-language:DE"><a href="mailto:jing.hu@sbb.spk-berlin.de"><span style="color:#0563C1">jing.hu@sbb.spk-berlin.de</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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