| 英文摘要 |
The map“Beiyang hai’an tu”北洋海岸圖, held by the National Palace Museum, covers Korea, Northeastern China, Shandong, Zhili, and the regional sea waters, with the names of places being written in both Manchu and Chinese. Previous scholarship has been aware of this map, but only introducing its contents to a limited extent. Many issues, including its dating as well as political and cultural connotations, therefore await further research. The present article argues that“Beiyang hai’an tu”was drawn between 1632 and 1634 based on“Wang Pan tizhi yudi tu”王泮題識天下輿地圖, a map produced in Korea around the 1610s or 1620s which was likewise a reproduction of“Yudi tu”by Bai Jun白君(?–?) of Shanyin from the late 16th century. The period of 1632 to 1634 coincides with when Emperor Hong Taiji of the Later Jin dynasty and founding emperor of the Qing dynasty (r. 1636–1643) shifted maritime policy towards active occupation by taking the Dongjiang Islands. Furthermore, this map depicts the shaping of the geographic and cultural world of the Later Jin; that is, instead of adopting the traditional Chinese cosmological notion of the four seas under heaven, the Later Jin, as this map suggests, founded a three-seas cosmology to establish its legitimacy. This article thus expounds“Beiyang hai’an tu”within the frameworks of knowledge exchange as well as the realities of military affairs, politics, and culture to understand the processes of empire-building during the Later Jin period. |