Cartographic Anxieties – Cross-Currents E-Journal (December 2016)
Cross-Currents E-Journal. December 2016, 21. Edited by Wen-hsin Yeh, University of California, Berkeley and Sungtaek Cho, Korea University. ISSN: 2158-9674.
Cross-Currents : East Asian History and Culture review est publié conjointement par l’Institute of East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley et par le Research Institute of Korean Studies, University of Korea. Une version papier, différente de la revue en ligne, est enregistrée sous l’ISSN 2158-9666.
While the term “cartographic anxieties” is metaphorically loaded, it has remained under-theorized and is used to refer to very different situations. A state can experience anxiety when it is subject to the “cartographic aggression” (de Blij 2012) of another. Anxiety can also be found in the gap between state representations and the imaginaries held by the citizens of that state, or between a dominant majority and an ethnic, religious, or political minority (Cons 2016). Further, it can have different temporal resonances in that the gap can index the nostalgic mourning for past territorial grandeur (Callahan 2010; Cartier 2013), evoke a programmatic future (Fortna 2002), or offer poetic and corporealized visions of the nation-state (Ramaswamy 2010).
The five articles in this special issue explore various political and cultural reverberations of cartography, as well as the complex set of discursive practices in which it is embedded. The discussion framing these papers began as a panel at the 2016 American Association of Geographers’ annual meeting, which included four of the authors featured here (Akin, Billé, Roszko, and Saxer). The contributions focus on China and its neighbors from the perspective of different disciplines: anthropology (Billé, Roszko, Saxer), history (Akin), and history of art (Tsultemin). In addition to bringing a cohesive and coherent focus to the special issue, this geographic convergence is timely given China’s recent economic and political trajectory. In tracing and analyzing the cartographic tremors of a geopolitical formation in flux, the different articles offer an outline of the mechanics of “cartographic anxiety” and together contribute to a better understanding of the affective power of mapping.
Editor’s Note
- Note to Readers
Wen-hsin Yeh, University of California, Berkeley and Sungtaek Cho, Korea University
Articles
Cartographic Anxieties
- Introduction to “Cartographic Anxieties”
Franck Billé, University of California, Berkeley
- Fishers and Territorial Anxieties in China and Vietnam: Narratives of the South China Sea Beyond the Frame of the Nation
Edyta Roszko, University of Copenhagen
- The “Da Ming Hunyi Tu”: Repurposing a Ming Map in Sino-African Diplomacy
Alexander Akin, Bolerium Books
- Cartographic Anxieties in Mongolia: The Bogd Khan’s Picture-Map
Uranchimeg Tsultemin, University of California, Berkeley
- On China’s Cartographic Embrace: A View from Its Northern Rim
Franck Billé, University of California, Berkeley
- A Spectacle of Maps: Cartographic Hopes and Anxieties in the Pamirs
Martin Saxer, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Review Essays, Notes & Bibliographies
[À noter : la plupart des ouvrages recensés dans cette rubrique sont disponibles à la bibliothèque du CECMC].
- Xinjiang Studies: The Third Wave
Peter C. Perdue, Yale University
- Water and Power in Twentieth-Century North China
Kenneth Pomeranz, University of Chicago
- Science for the People: Science in the Making of Modern China
Shellen Wu, University of Tennessee
Photo Essay
- The Cartographic Evolution of the Sino-Mongolian Border at Zamyn Üüd/Erlian
Curated by: Susan Powell
Readings From Asia
- An Homage to the Bleak and Dismal World
Kim Yerim, Yonsei University
OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Monique Abud (21 janvier 2017). Cartographic Anxieties – Cross-Currents E-Journal (December 2016). ChinElectrodoc. Consulté le 10 novembre 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/mqxh
