Map · Chinese
Huangchao yitong yudi quantu (Complete Map of the Unified Qing Empire), 1832 woodblock on 8 scrolls, with inset Huangchao yudi zongtu (LOC; 1842 state also held)
皇朝一統輿地全圖
Li Zhaoluo (1769-1841) and Dong Fangli
How we know
compilation Assembled from earlier sources. The author did not observe it directly.
compilation: Li Zhaoluo's reduction of the Kangxi-Qianlong Jesuit survey atlases onto a graticule, with Daoguang-era administrative updates
Research notes
- Based on the Qianlong Neifu yutu; LOC notes a near-identical 1842 issue.
Why it matters
The first widely printed Chinese map to place the Jesuit survey of Mongolia, Xinjiang and Tibet on a longitude-latitude grid for Chinese readers (1832), documenting Qing official geography of the northern frontier at the end of the study period.
Places named
Qing empire from Sakhalin to the Pamirs and from the Russian border to the South China Sea; Mongolia, Xinjiang, Tibet, Manchuria
Who copied whom
Earlier in the chain
- Huangyu quanlan fensheng tu M107, 1717–1721this one was drawn from it (stated)Li Zhaoluo 1832 from the Kangxi and Qianlong survey atlases
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