Elke Papelitzky

• Papelitzky, Elke (2025). Sailing to Ayutthaya: European and Asian Navigation in the Gulf of Thailand in the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries. Journal of Asian History (JAH). ISSN 0021-910X. 59(1-2), s. 117–148. doi: 10.13173/JAH.59.1-2.117. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  In the early modern period, the Kingdom of Ayutthaya served as a crucial trading hub in Southeast Asia. As a result, ships from many places of origin sailed in the Gulf of Thailand, and a range of different sources document these voyages: rutters, travel accounts, and maps. This article analyses sources in multiple languages, primarily including Chinese, Portuguese, Dutch, and French, together with environmental information in order to reconstruct the routes sailors took in the Gulf of Thailand during the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. The sources detail routes along the coasts of Cambodia and the Malay Peninsula leading to the Siamese Bar, a shallow area at the Chao Phraya River Estuary. For many European ships, the shallowness of the waters over this sandbar required them to change to smaller vessels. After having crossed the bar, travelers continued up-river to reach the capital Ayutthaya.

• Papelitzky, Elke (2025). Seafaring Knowledge of Ming Literati: the Scholarly Dissemination of Sailing Route Descriptions. I Schottenhammer, Angela; Torck, Mathieu & Winter, Wim De (Red.), Seafaring, Trade, and Knowledge Transfer: Maritime Politics and Commerce in Early Middle Period to Early Modern China and South East & East Asia. De Gruyter Brill. ISSN 9789004740556. s. 101–133. doi: 10.1163/9789004740556_007. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Papelitzky, Elke (2025). Sailing to and around the Philippines: Analysising sixteenth to eighteenth century Chinese rutters and other geographical sources. I Magnani, Arianna & Colla, Elisabetta (Red.), Beyond the seas: Routes, traders and narratives of macau and the South China Sea. Centro Cientifíco e Cultural de Macau. ISSN 9789728586720. s. 76–97. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Papelitzky, Elke (2025). Sailing the Waters of East and Southeast Asia: Chinese Navigators and their Material and Mental Tools. Journal of Chinese History / 中國歷史學刊. ISSN 2059-1632. 9(special issue 2), s. 322–344. doi: 10.1017/jch.2025.4. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  In the early modern period, the waters of East and Southeast Asia saw a bustling maritime trade. To conduct this trade, ships needed competent sailors to safely travel between ports. Chinese sources name one person as particularly important: the huozhang 火長. The sources tell us that the huozhang were charged to use the compass and, employing sailing manuals, to guide ships in the correct direction. In this role, they had to work closely with other sailors, such as duogong 舵工 (steersmen). This article reconstructs the role and function of the navigating personnel on Chinese ships, as well as the tools they used to determine course in the period between the fifteenth and eighteenth century.

• Papelitzky, Elke (2025). Mapping tianxia and mapping the world: Cosmopolitan ideas in geographic sources of fifteenth- to eighteenth-century China. Modern Asian Studies. ISSN 0026-749X. 58, s. 1154–1180. doi: 10.1017/S0026749X23000306. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The concept of tianxia (All-under-Heaven) has been described as a Chinese version of cosmopolitanism. However, tianxia is a hard-to-define term, with political, cultural, and geographic meanings. From the fifteenth century onwards, maps exist that claim to show tianxia, therefore allowing us to reconstruct how Chinese mapmakers understood tianxia’s geographic extent. Other terms in the titles of maps that show space beyond the borders of the Ming and Qing states include huayi (civilized and barbarian/Chinese and non-Chinese), wanguo (10,000 countries), and sihai (four seas). This article examines the geographic extent of these terms and changes in their usage between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries. It argues that Ming Chinese mapmakers and scholars presented tianxia as equivalent to the Ming empire and used terms such as huayi and wanguo to advertise the maps as showing regions far away, like western Asia and the Americas. Jesuits in China, on the other hand, applied a broader meaning of tianxia, equating it with the whole globe. During the Qing, the extent of tianxia expanded to represent a cosmopolitan empire connected to a range of surrounding states, embedded in a wider world.

• Cams, Mario & Papelitzky, Elke (2025). Giulio Aleni's map sheet: exploring the contents and materiality of the only known Ming-era print. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. ISSN 1356-1863. 35(2), s. 395–414. doi: 10.1017/S1356186324000257. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Japan’s Kobe City Museum holds a unique yet overlooked xylographic print of an early seventeenth century composition that centres on a Chinese-language world map, mounted as a scroll. At first glance, the scroll seems to contain a copy of a well-known composition attributed to the Jesuit Giulio Aleni that is extant at two Italian libraries. It is known in the literature as Wanguo quantu 萬國全圖, after the title of only one of three constitutive parts. Detailed comparison shows that the hitherto unstudied Kobe sheet is significantly older. This observation initiates a discussion of the contents and materiality of the Kobe sheet in three steps. First, a reconstruction of intertextual connections to late Ming books based on the introductory text illustrates the function of the sheet map. Second, the origins of the maps proper are investigated, which, unlike the introductory text, can be traced back to a collaborative book project. In a last step, the afterlife of these map sheets is discussed, further illuminating the genealogy of maps that facilitated the production of the Kobe sheet. Throughout, this article highlights the local co-creation of map artefacts and the necessity to study maps in context, beyond the analysis of their cartographic contents.

• Papelitzky, Elke & Pegg, Richard A. (2024). The Blue Maps of China: Considerations of Materiality and Function in China and Japan, Maps and Colours: A Complex Relationship. De Gruyter Brill. ISSN 9789004467354. s. 190–204. doi: 10.1163/9789004467361_015. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  In China, during the early decades of the nineteenth century, two series of large format maps, one terrestrial and one celestial, were printed using blue colourant. The pigment used for the blue colour was Prussian blue, making these maps probably the earliest large-scale application of the use of this colourant in China. Also unusual, as in typical map printing practices the outlines and texts are printed on a white ground, is that these maps were printed in the opposite, in the Chinese manner of rubbings. The combination of size, colour, and presentation formats made these maps unique objects, and these visually striking qualities quickly made them popular in China and Japan. This chapter will introduce the production and distribution circumstances and the materiality of these maps, in an effort to more fully understand how these maps functioned in early nineteenth century China and Japan.

• Papelitzky, Elke (2024). Making a Case for Trade: Shi Shipiao’s Map of the Eastern and Southern Oceans. East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine (EAST). ISSN 1562-918X. 56(1), s. 48–89. doi: 10.1163/26669323-20241014. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  In the early eighteenth century, the Kangxi emperor was presented with two maps in Chinese, one each from the officials Gioro Mamboo and Shi Shipiao. The maps showed southern China and Southeast Asia and were based on Dutch charts. The officials presented the maps at a time when the emperor had recently issued a law restricting Chinese trade in Southeast Asia. The map presented by Shi Shipiao adds information about sailing routes and export goods that were subject to the trade restrictions imposed by the emperor. This article argues that rather than being intended to provide a representation of seafaring knowledge, Shi aimed to use the map he presented to convince the emperor to lift the restrictions he had imposed on trade. This therefore provides an example of how maps could be used for political ends. In contrast to many other Chinese maps influenced by European sciences, these two maps show no Jesuit involvement but resemble the Selden Map as well as Japanese and Buginese charts, representing a maritime perspective in the history of knowledge exchange.

• Papelitzky, Elke (2024). World Maps from Japan Reimagined in Japan. I Cams, Mario & Papelitzky, Elke (Red.), Remapping the world in East Asia: Toward a global history of the "Ricci maps". University of Hawai'i Press. ISSN 9780824895044. s. 159–187. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Papelitzky, Elke (2024). Red Lines in the Ocean: Sea Routes on Early Modern East Asian Maps. Imago mundi. ISSN 0308-5694. 75(2), s. 293–299. doi: 10.1080/03085694.2023.2281136. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Papelitzky, Elke (2023). Old and New Views on the “Barbarians”: The 1612 Fangyu shenglüe 方輿勝略. Transpacific Research Notes. ISSN 2796-1184. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Papelitzky, Elke (2021). Shallow Water at China’s Coast: Depicting Dangers on Early Modern Chinese Maps. Isis. ISSN 0021-1753. 112(1), s. 111–121. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Papelitzky, Elke (2021). Sand, Water, and Stars: Chinese Mapping of the Gobi and Taklamakan Deserts. T'oung pao (Print). ISSN 0082-5433. 107(3-4), s. 367–416. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Papelitzky, Elke (2020). Wanming wenren dui Zheng He tongshi Xianluo to renchi - Xiyangji he lishi dili wenben de bijiao yanjiu” 晚明文人对郑和通使暹罗的认知—《西洋记》和历史地理文本的比较研究. I Ptak, Roderich & Shi, Ping (Red.), Sanbao taijian xiyang ji tongsu yanyi zhi yanjiu 《三宝太监西洋记通俗演义》之研究. Haiyang chubanshe. ISSN 9787521005431. s. 155–167. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Papelitzky, Elke (2020). Gui’an as a Centre for Writing about the World during the Late Ming Dynasty. Monumenta Serica: Journal of Oriental Studies. ISSN 0254-9948. 68(1), s. 107–135. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Papelitzky, Elke (2019). Weapons Used Aboard Ming Chinese Ships and Some Thoughts on the Armament of Zheng He’s Fleet. China and Asia. ISSN 2589-465X. 1(2), s. 192–224. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Papelitzky, Elke (2019). Editing, Circulating, and Reading Huang Zhong’s Hai yu. A Case Study in the History of Reading and the Circulation of Knowledge in Ming and Qing China. Ming Qing Yanjiu. ISSN 2468-4791. 23(1), s. 1–38. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Papelitzky, Elke (2018). The Knowledge of Late Ming Literati about Zheng He’s Visits to Siam – A Comparison of the Xiyang ji and Historical Geographical Texts. Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Asian Interactions (CJAI). ISSN 2190-8796. 17-18, s. 69–92. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Papelitzky, Elke (2015). An Introduction to Siyi guangji 四夷廣記. Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Asian Interactions (CJAI). ISSN 2190-8796. 11, s. 85–95. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Papelitzky, Elke (2014). A Description and Analysis of the Japanese World Map Bankoku sōzu in Its Version of 1671 and Some Thoughts on the Sources of the Original Bankoku sōzu. Journal of Asian History (JAH). ISSN 0021-910X. 48(1), s. 15–59. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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• Cams, Mario & Papelitzky, Elke (2024). Remapping the world in East Asia: Toward a global history of the "Ricci maps". University of Hawai'i Press. ISBN 9780824895044. 328 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Papelitzky, Elke (2020). Writing World History in Late Ming China and the Perception of Maritime Asia. Harrassowitz Verlag. ISBN 9783447113090. 240 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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• Papelitzky, Elke (2025). <書評>Ｄ・マックス・モアマン『日本仏教の世界地図 : 宗教観と地図制作の創造力』. Nihon kenkyu = 日本研究 = Bulletin of International Research Center for Japanese Studies. 71, s. 122–124. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Cams, Mario & Papelitzky, Elke (2024). Introduction: Remapping the World in East Asia. I Cams, Mario & Papelitzky, Elke (Red.), Remapping the world in East Asia: Toward a global history of the "Ricci maps". University of Hawai'i Press. ISSN 9780824895044. s. 1–17. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Papelitzky, Elke (2024). Review of Marco Caboara, Regnum Chinae: The Printed Western Maps of China to 1735. Journal of Chinese History / 中國歷史學刊. ISSN 2059-1632. 8(2), s. 396–401. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Papelitzky, Elke (2023). <BOOK REVIEW>The Japanese Buddhist World Map : Religious Vision and the Cartographic Imagination, by D. Max Moerman. Japan Review. ISSN 0915-0986. 38, s. 281–283. doi: 10.15055/0002000090. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Papelitzky, Elke (2023). Review of East Asian Cartographic Print Culture: The Late Ming Publishing Boom and Its Trans-Regional Connections by Alexander Akin. Journal of Asian Studies. ISSN 0021-9118. 82(2), s. 293–295. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Papelitzky, Elke (2023). Review of Zusetsu zōran: Edo jidai ni kankō sareta sekai chizu 図説総覧: 江戸時代に刊行された世界地図, by Kaida Toshikazu 海田俊一. IMCOS Map Journal. ISSN 0956-5728. 173, s. 58–59. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Papelitzky, Elke (2022). Review of Printing Landmarks: Popular Geography and Meisho Zue in Late Tokugawa Japan, by Robert Goree. East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine (EAST). ISSN 1562-918X. 54(2), s. 333–335. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Papelitzky, Elke (2021). Review of Aufzeichnungen über die Meere. Niedergeschrieben von Yang Bingnan, nach dem mündlichen Bericht von Xie Qinggao. Journal of Asian History (JAH). ISSN 0021-910X. 55(1), s. 173–177. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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