【Talk&Lecture】Metaphor of map
Date: 1st November, 2019
Time: 9:30 a.m.
Venue: Lecture Hall, Floor 3, Bell Tower, Zhijiang Campus, Zhejiang Unviersity
【Speaker Introduction】：Lin Tianren, researcher at the National Palace Museum in Taipei, Ph.D. in history from Taiwan Normal University. His research interest is in pre-Qin history, philology, and ancient cartography. He is the author of Study on the Regional Culture of the Pre-Qin Sanjin, and The Emperor's Search - The Map of the Ming and Qing Dynasties in the Library of Congress.
【Lecture Abstract】：
For a long time, maps have always played the role of auxiliary or left-handed evidence in the research fields of various disciplines. In other words, although the development of maps is early and functional, it has not become an independent discipline. The discussion of the map by the ancients was nothing more than “having maps on the left and history books on the right”. This is the limitation of map. It belongs to the historical data, so its interpretation must be transformed into a text narrative by the reader, and thus the map is positioned as an auxiliary tool in the historical material category. However, the research in recent years has shown a booming trend, making cartography gradually become a professional discipline. The researchers interpret the images from different aspects such as the style, beauty, genre, epochal meaning and historical data reflected in the map; from the information revealed on the surface to the hidden meaning behind it, they are gradually being deeply explored. Therefore, the map evolved from the original practical object to the later generation to understand the special carrier of the previous generation, and as a literature interpretation, its importance has greatly increased.
