Map · Chinese
Cheonhado (Korean wheel-map of the world) and Ch’onha chido atlas, manuscript copies c.1800 (two LOC items)
天下圖 / 天下地圖
anonymous Korean copyists
How we know
compilation Assembled from earlier sources. The author did not observe it directly.
retrospective compilation: Choson-era popular world map combining Chinese classical geography (Shanhaijing lands) with a China-centred inner continent; peoples of the north appear as classical names
Research notes
- Undated copies; LOC dates c.1800 by style. The wheel map tradition has no single author.
Why it matters
Shows the Korean vernacular picture of Inner Asia around 1800: a China-centred continent where the Mongol and Jurchen north is framed in classical terms, with no Tartary concept; a control case for the East Asian side.
Places named
Inner continent with China, Korea, Mongolia and the Western Regions; ring ocean with mythic lands
Who copied whom
No copying traced for this map yet. See the family trees.
Keep exploring
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