Mobility, Empire and Cross Cultural Contacts in Mongol Eurasia

Chinese and Asian Geographical and Cartographical Views Conference in Bohn

25.01.14

Michal Biran and Francesca Fiaschetti took part in the conference Chinese and Asian Geographical and Cartographical Views on Central Asia that was held in Bonn on January 10-11, 2014, presenting papers on "The Scholarly Map of Mongol Central Asia as Seen from the Mamluk Sultanate" and "Between Landscape and Ethnoscape: Representations of the Xiyu in the Yuanshi." The conference was organized by Ralph Kauz (Bonn), Hyunhee Park (New York) and Liu Yingsheng (Nanjing university) and brought together leading scholars from Asia, Europe and North America, who discussed different representations of Central Asia in the Chinese and Islamic cartographic tradition.

The programm of the conference in PDF can be found here.

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