Co-organized by Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), École française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO), Research Centre for Chinese History and Culture, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, the Department of Chinese, Lingnan University, and Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Macau Topic：“Mapping Islands in early modern Sinographic Asia” In this talk, I will discuss how mapmakers in early modern Sinographic Asia depicted islands, focusing on world maps and maps of the whole region made in Ming and Qing China, Edo Japan, and Joseon Korea. Many maps of the Ming state include a range of neighboring states depicted as islands, a practice that we can also find on Korean circular world maps. On these maps, state-islands appear next to islands off the Chinese coast such as Hainan, which results in archipelagic Japan being depicted in a similar way as singular islands. When Japanese mapmakers adapted Chinese cartographic models, they made changes to the depictions of islands. By discussing selected case studies from China, Japan, and Korea, I will show how cartographic knowledge circulated in the region and how different attitudes toward mapping islands resulted in the adaptation and transformation of such knowledge. Speaker：Prof. Elke Papelitzky Elke Papelitzky is associate professor of Chinese history at the University of Oslo, Norway. She received her PhD from the University of Salzburg in 2017 and has published extensively on the history of mapmaking in East Asia. She is the author of Writing World History in Late Ming China and the Perception of Maritime Asia (Harrassowitz, 2020) and co-editor of Remapping the World in East Asia: Toward a Global History of the “Ricci Maps” (University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2024). Date：18 November 2026 (Wednesday) Time：04:30 p.m. - 06:30 p.m. (Tea reception starts at 4:00 p.m.) On-site participation: Activities Room, 2/F, Art Museum East Wing, CUHK Online broadcasting: ZOOM Conducted in English. Enquiry: 3943 7393 / ics-activities@cuhk.edu.hk 由香港中文大學中國文化研究所、法國遠東學院、香港理工大學中國歷史與文化研究中心、嶺南大學中文系、澳門大學人文學院共同合辦 講題: 「Mapping Islands in early modern Sinographic Asia」 講者: Prof. Elke Papelitzky 日 期：2026年11月18日（星期三） 時 間：下午四時正至六時三十分︱ 敬備茶點 下午四時三十至六時三十分︱ 講座 現場出席：香港中文大學文物館東翼二樓活動室 網上直播：ZOOM 語 言：英語 查 詢：3943 7393 / ics-activities@cuhk.edu.hk