East
Asian Map Collection ("Sea of Korea" Map Collection) (172
medium res., full-screen maps of the world, Asia, east Asia,
China, Sea of Korea, etc., 1606-1895 - Archival Research Center,
University of Southern California) {May, 2002}
East Asia (medium to
high res. images of a large collection of western maps of East Asia; entirely in
Japanese) {December, 2006}
'Far East
and the Pacific' (5 medium res., slow-loading, maps, 1620-1831- Yale
University Library) {October, 2001}
China. (entirely in
Chinese; clicking on the links, and particularly the fourth (‘Catalog’) leads to a selection of
images enlargeable to high res., dating back to the 5th century B.C. - Department of
Geography, Hong Kong Baptist University) {February, 2005}
China. [European knowledge 1500-1630] (the final part of the pdf thesis [NB a large pdf file], entitled ‘Mapas e iconografia dos Sécs. XVI e XVII’
(from p.1369), includes 22 low to medium res. images of Portuguese world maps and charts of the
East; the map indexes are pp. 1424-6 [i.e. 31-3 in the pdf numeration] - 1509-page doctoral
thesis (2003) ‘A construção do conhecimento europeu sobre a China, c.1500 - c.1630. Impressos e
manuscritos que revelaram o mundo chinês à Europa culta’ by Francisco M. Roque de Oliveira,
including an English abstract) {April, 2005}
China. HKUST
Antique Maps Database ('more than 230 maps, charts, pictures, books
and atlases', mostly of China but also of East Asia: enlargeable Adobe
Acrobat images, in fairly high res. - Hong Kong University of
Science & Technology Library) {August, 2003}
+ China in
Maps - a Library Special Collection (62 images, mostly maps and
charts of the World, Asia and China; clicking on the image takes you to a
catalogue entry (in English or Chinese) and clicking on that to a
slow-loading PDF image that can be zoomed to high res.; the
commentary (in English or Chinese) is linked to catalogue entries and to
lists of maps by a given cartographer - exhibition 2002, Hong Kong
University of Science & Technology) {September, 2002}
China. 'Maps of
China' (select 'historical maps', towards the bottom, for a small selection of early
maps, in various resolutions - China the Beautiful) {February, 2004}
China.
'Martino Martini (Trento 1614 - Hangzhou 1661)' (leading to 'Cronologia della vita e delle
opere di Martino Martini S.J.' and 'La raccolta del Novus Atlas Sinensis', which includes
enlarged thumbnails of all the plates in the atlas of China, with commentary in Italian -
Martino Martini Center) {September, 2005}
China - Macau. ‘Overlooking the Earth: Map of China and Macao’ (click on the
‘Maps’ link at the extreme right for up to 56 low-medium res. maps (some of which do not fit
the screen), with trilingual commentary (Chinese, English, Portuguese) - Instituto para os
Assuntos Civicos e Municipais) {April, 2005}
China - Nansha Islands (about
60 maps, 1405-2005, medium to high res. - in Chinese and English) {March, 2006}