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<DIV>May I just remind all that Bob Batchelor and Stephen Davies have also
written on the Selden map in <EM>Imago Mundi, </EM>Volume 65:1 (2013), pp
37-63 and 97-105 respectively, with colour plates. </DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
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href="mailto:batchelo@georgiasouthern.edu">Robert Batchelor</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Friday, June 13, 2014 2:04 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=edney@usm.maine.edu
href="mailto:edney@usm.maine.edu">edney@usm.maine.edu</A> ; <A
title=ishm@lazarus.elte.hu
href="mailto:ishm@lazarus.elte.hu">ishm@lazarus.elte.hu</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [ISHMap-List] Salem and Selden</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><B>Forwarding</B> on something I wrote to fellow lister Vera
Dorofeeva-Lichtmann about the supposed Salem Map to save her a stamp as it
were:<BR><BR>The story became apocryphal by the late nineteenth century, in a
often quoted but rarely cited poem that was actually written as a footnote to
another poem in 1878:<BR><BR>"Some native merchant of the East, they
say<BR>(Whether Canton, Calcutta or Bombay),<BR>Had in his counting-room a map,
whereon<BR>Across the field in capitals was drawn<BR>The name of Salem, meant to
represent<BR>That Salem was the Western Continent,<BR>While in an upper corner
was put down<BR>A dot named Boston, SALEM'S leading town." <BR>Charles Brooks in
"The Fifth Half Century of the Landing of John Endicott at Salem Massachusetts"
(Salem: Essex Institute, 1878), 113n. As you can see, it was already a
joke in 1878, and it sounds like it was a joke much earlier.<BR><BR>That volume
was part of the series "Historical Collections of the Essex Institute."
All nicely digitized on Google Books<BR>(<A
href="http://books.google.com/books?id=IbsTAAAAYAAJ&dq=Some%20native%20merchant%20of%20the%20East%2C%20they%20say%20(Whether%20Canton%2C%20Calcutta%20or%20Bombay)%2C&pg=PA113#v=onepage&q=Some%20native%20merchant%20of%20the%20East,%20they%20say%20(Whether%20Canton,%20Calcutta%20or%20Bombay),&f=false">http://books.google.com/books?id=IbsTAAAAYAAJ&dq=Some%20native%20merchant%20of%20the%20East%2C%20they%20say%20(Whether%20Canton%2C%20Calcutta%20or%20Bombay)%2C&pg=PA113#v=onepage&q=Some%20native%20merchant%20of%20the%20East,%20they%20say%20(Whether%20Canton,%20Calcutta%20or%20Bombay),&f=false</A>)<BR><BR>In
almost all the stories, most of them post-dating 1878, the map is a manuscript
hanging on the wall of a merchant. The story usually says Calcutta, but as
with most folklore there are Canton and Bombay versions. The only odd
thing is the way it clearly goes from being a very self-aware Orientalist joke
with multiple referents to being local history. The inscription is
supposed to be in English when the map is in Calcutta. The source of the
Peabody Essex rumor about a Chinese map is David Ferguson, "Cleopatra's Barge"
(1976), whom I suspect read this poem in the "Historical Collections" and then
claimed the map was there. His book, while entertaining in its way, is
somewhat notorious for this kind of slippage.<BR>
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<DIV><B>Also, </B>as it may be of interest to list members, I just returned from
Hong Kong, where the Selden Map is on display at the Hong Kong Maritime Museum
as part of the exhibition "Mapping Ming China's Maritime World" and there was a
major conference on the Selden Map. A number of elaborations of
points made in the Imago Mundi articles by Stephen Davies and myself were
made. Davies himself presented important new work questioning the
centrality of the compass to Chinese and East Asian navigation generally, using
the Selden Map to show a 'repertoire' of techniques in play. Other
scholars presented equally important discoveries that can help with provenance
questions, confirming and elaborating much of what has previously been presented
as tentative. It was very clear that for those working in East Asia on
maritime issues as well as cartography, this is a very important map, helping to
rework and shift direction in a number of fields. A group from the
Philippines that has recently published a volume on early modern cartography
mapping those islands made the trip just for the conference (in part because of
the importance of the Selden Map's depiction of the archipelago). In
general, it is a really exciting time to be doing comparative work in East Asian
maps. The atmosphere was highly dynamic in no small part thanks to the
visionary people at HKMM, who are very interested in maritime cartography.
It was clear by the end of the conference that we are going to be seeing a lot
more largely unknown East Asian maps from the early modern period challenging
and even overturning many of our assumptions about cartography during this
period.</DIV>
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<DIV>The full program can be found at: <A
href="http://www.hkmaritimemuseum.org/media/fck/files/Leaflet_6pps.pdf">http://www.hkmaritimemuseum.org/media/fck/files/Leaflet_6pps.pdf</A></DIV>
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<DIV>Bob Batchelor</DIV>
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<DIV> </DIV>-- <BR>Robert Batchelor<BR>Associate Professor of
History<BR>Georgia Southern University<BR>Forest Drive Building (Office
1211)<BR>PO 8054<BR>Statesboro, GA 30460<BR>Phone: 912-660-6613<BR>FAX:
912-478-0377 </DIV></DIV>
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