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Aleni's World Geography Chih-fang Wai-chi (「職方外紀」) and It’s Organization and Description of Geographical Knowledge

  • Journal of the Association of Korean Geographers
  • Abbr : JAKG
  • 2017, 6(3), pp.305-318
  • DOI : 10.25202/JAKG.6.3.1
  • Publisher : Association of Korean Geographers
  • Research Area : Social Science > Geography
  • Received : November 2, 2017
  • Accepted : November 30, 2017

Tae-Yeol Seo 1

1고려대학교

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ABSTRACT

This paper aims to illuminate the origin, knowledge structure, characteristics of geographical description in Chih-fang Wai-chi (「職方外紀」) in terms of life, activities and it's generational background of author Aleni who are called “Confuscious from West”. Chih-fang Wai-chi (「職方外紀」) is the first world geography book in chinese character with geographical knowledge. This book cast great shock on Chinese view on the world which characteristics are china-oriented and center(華)-periphery(異) dichotomy. This book in which western missionaries provide Asia firstly with world geography knowledge is not a personal meeting between East and West, rather a meeting between East and West through book which contains the structural body of world knowledge.

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