Laura Hostetler, PhD (1995), University of Pennsylvania, is Professor of History and Global Asian Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research interests include the history of cartography, empire, and encounters between Europe and Asia.

• Foreword: Maps, Missionaries, and the Global Exchange of Knowledge in the Early Modern WorldM. Antoni J. Ucerler, S.J.Preface and AcknowledgementsLaura HostetlerList of IllustrationsAbbreviationsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Reflections on Form and ContentLaura HostetlerPart 1: Jesuit Circuits of Communication and Publication1 Jesuit Contributions to Global Connectivity and Global Consciousness in the Early Modern EraJosé Casanova2 From Manuscript to Print: At the Origins of Early Jesuit Missionary Strategies of CommunicationRobert Danieluk, S.J.3 Dutch Publications on the Jesuit Mission in China in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth CenturiesPaul Begheyn, S.J.Part 2: Jesuit World Maps in Chinese, from Ricci to Verbiest4 Parallels, Engagement, and Integration: The Ricci Maps and Their Afterlives in Ming-Qing China as a Case Study of Intertwined Global Early ModernityQiong Zhang5 The Introduction of Ricci’s World Maps into Edo Period Japan: A Detailed Comparative Investigation of MapsAOYAMA Hiro’o6 Ad Maiorem Dei Gloriam: Jesuit Mapping in China by Giulio Aleni, Francesco Sambiasi, Niccolò Longobardi, Manuel Diaz, and OthersPaola Demattè7 The World Revealed: Science, Mythology, and the Natural World in Ferdinand Verbiest’s Kunyu Quantu 坤輿全圖 (1674)Mark Stephen MirPart 3: Reverberations of Ricci’s Maps in East Asia8 Representing an Ideal World Order of the Past: The Cultural Function of the Jesuit World Maps in Eighteenth-Century Korean GovernmentLIM Jongtae9 Entering Asia: The Repositioning of JapanKären Wigen10 China’s Nine-Dash Line: Cartographic Science and the Adoption of New Map Languages in the Transition from Empire to Nation StateLaura HostetlerPostlude: Reflections on the Curation of Cartographic Knowledge11 Writing Technologies and Special Collections: Agents and Arbiters of Change through the Transmission of KnowledgeMarguerite Ragnow12 East Asian Map Collections in the Library of Congress: A Unique Source for the Study of Cartography and East–West Cultural ExchangeRalph E. EhrenbergIndex