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Manuscript silk scroll of four Qing frontier maps: Aihun (Amur), Luosha (Russians), Taiwan and Inner Mongolia, c.1697 (LOC)
[璦琿 羅刹 臺灣 內蒙古圖]
anonymous Qing court painter
How we know
official or contemporary record An official document or a record made at the time.
official record: Kangxi-era military-administrative pictorial maps of the Amur frontier with the Russians (Luosha) after the Nerchinsk settlement, of Taiwan and of Inner Mongolia
Research notes
- Undated; LOC assigns c.1697 from content. Pictorial bird's-eye style, no scale.
Why it matters
A Qing internal view of the Amur frontier and the Russians (named Luosha) in the 1690s, the Chinese counterpart to Remezov's Amur leaf and to Witsen; directly relevant to how the Qing mapped the northern neighbours.
Places named
Amur (Aihun/Aigun), Russian frontier, Taiwan, Inner Mongolia
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