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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><font size="3" face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Eighth
<font color="#0000FF"><i style="">Imago Mundi</i></font> Prize
Awarded</font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The Directors of Imago Mundi Ltd are
delighted to announce
that the eighth <b><font color="#FF0000">Imago Mundi Prize</font></b> has been awarded to <font color="#0000FF"><b><font color="#000000">Mario Cams</font>
</b><font color="#000000"> for </font><b><i>‘Not Just
a Jesuit Atlas of China: Qing Imperial Cartography and Its
European
Connections’</i></b> </font>which appeared in <b><i style="">Imago Mundi
</i>69:2 (2017): 188-201</b>. Dr Cams is Assistant Professor in the
Department of
History at the University of Macau.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The successful article provides a thorough
and original
reinterpretation of an early 18th century atlas of Qing China's
territories,
including Korea and Tibet. This atlas had traditionally been
assumed to be the
work of European missionaries, implanting European traditions
into Chinese
culture, but the paper persuasively argues that the atlas in
fact represents a
more complex integration of different cultures and methods. The
key arguments
to support the idea of hybrid practices are clearly stated and
well-structured,
resting upon a detailed examination of surveying techniques,
measurement and
the production of the atlas. For example, whilst some European
scientific
practices were copied, the measurement of an accurate base line
for
triangulation was not, and the traditional Qing measurement of
road distances
with ropes was retained and developed. The resulting atlas also
exists in a
number of forms for different audiences, printed using both
woodblock and
copperplate techniques, and impossible to define as simply
‘traditional’ or
‘scientific’. This creative integration of different practices
allows broader
conclusions to be made on shared knowledge and the cultural
transfer of ideas. By understanding the atlas as a significant
example of early
modern state-sponsored cartography, the important political
purposes behind the
Qing atlas in terms of frontier management and control of
territory are also
revealed through a clear description of the historical and
geographical
context. This period was one of unprecedented imperial expansion
for the Qing
Empire, and the new atlas allowed the Chinese court and elites,
as well as a
wider European readership, to visualise the growing extent and
significance of
the Qing Empire. The paper also impressed the judges in its
research process
and methodology, its international perspective, and in its
encouragement to
further work in this area.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The <i style="">Imago
Mundi</i>
prize is offered every two years. This award covers Volumes 69
(2017) and 70
(2018). The winning article is the one judged ‘to have made the
most
significant contribution to the discipline’. Only full-length
articles, which
are automatically subjected to the (anonymous) external
refereeing process
before acceptance for publication, are eligible for the prize. The prize is $1000 and qualifies the
recipient for a J. B.
Harley Travel Award to the biennial International Conference on
the History of
Cartography (<b>Amsterdam, 14-19 July 2019</b>). The Imago Mundi Prize is generously sponsored
by <b>Kenneth
Nebenzahl.</b></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">By courtesy of our publishers, <b>Routledge
Journals (Taylor
& Francis),</b> Mario Cam’s article is being made available free
of charge at
<b> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rimu20/current" target="_blank">https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rimu20/current</a>.</b></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;" align="right"><b><font size="2" face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Tony
Campbell</font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;" align="right"><font size="2" face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Chairman,
Imago Mundi
Ltd</font></p>
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