The Transformation of Modern Chinese Map-making:Feng Guifen's Surveying and Mapping Methods
Feng Guifen,a thinker in the late Qing Dynasty,once designed a set of surveying and mapping methods in his masterpiece Protest from the Jiaobin Studio.It is based on the square grid style and centered on field surveying,and contains angle,distance and topographic surveying and mapping.It was effectively practiced in the field surveying work of Chuansha Ting and was also partially applied to the later surveying work of the Map of Jiangsu Province during the Tongzhi Reign.Feng Guifen's not only inherited and integrated traditional Chinese map-making techniques,but also made improvement and innovation in order to meet practical needs.It reflects the pursuit and desire of the society for accurate maps,as well as the attempts and attention cast by the contemporaries onto advancing surveying and mapping technology.Underlying is a complex process of collision and fusion of Chinese and Western modes of knowledge which offers a perspective for the study of the modernization and transformation of modem Chinese cartographic history.
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