Da Qing wannian yitong tianxia quantu (Complete Map of the Everlasting Unified Great Qing Empire), 1811 woodblock on 8 scrolls (LOC Hummel copy); with the 1796-1820 state via WDL
大清萬年一統天下全圖
Huang Qianren (1694-1771), original 1767; 1811 woodblock re-issue
How we know
compilation Assembled from earlier sources. The author did not observe it directly.
compilation: Huang Qianren's 1767 map after Huang Zongxi, updated with Qianlong-era conquests (Xinjiang) and surrounding states from tributary knowledge
Research notes
- Many states 1767-1860; LOC holds 1811 and 1814, WDL/NLC the 1796-1820 revision with additions in blue. Huang Zongxi's 1673 map is the ultimate source.
- Retry the IIIF region request; LOC tile server returned 503 on two large-region requests during this session.
Why it matters
The best-known late-Qing popular map of the empire: it fixes the Qing view of Mongolia, Xinjiang and the Kazakh and Russian neighbours around 1800 in Chinese terms, the domestic counterpart to Western Chinese Tartary maps of the same decades.
Places named
Qing empire from Korea to Xinjiang and Tibet; Russia, Kazakhs, Central Asia, India, Southeast Asia in the margins
Who copied whom
No copying traced for this map yet. See the family trees.
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