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  • 5 - At the Limits of China

  • Florin-Stefan Morar, National University of Singapore
  • Book:
    Connected Cartographies
    Published online:
    11 December 2025
    Print publication:
    22 January 2026, pp 149-184

  • Summary

    With the invasion and conquest of Beijing by the Manchus the very same barbarians that the wall was meant to keep out, the limitations of the Ming state were superseded. Now the Manchu founded Qing dynasty sought new ways to understand where to draw the borders of their state to the North and West.The chapter covers the back and forth in cartographic translation between China and Europe during the eighteenth century, from the Kangxi era to the end of the Qianlong reign. This back and forth, it is argued, led to the creation of the Qing geo-body and the idea of the borders of China. The chapter shows that a notion of China’s borders first appeared as a result of cartographic exchanges between China and Europe.