24:I[197881,["/_next/static/chunks/b2f0c8dea66a8dca.js?dpl=dpl_3Y85MxVQNmj2PGnTr3jWedmKhyK2","/_next/static/chunks/7f542e29850d5a34.js?dpl=dpl_3Y85MxVQNmj2PGnTr3jWedmKhyK2","/_next/static/chunks/236a773bf983a6e6.js?dpl=dpl_3Y85MxVQNmj2PGnTr3jWedmKhyK2","/_next/static/chunks/73ec2f460c58b917.js?dpl=dpl_3Y85MxVQNmj2PGnTr3jWedmKhyK2","/_next/static/chunks/44b741cc62655314.js?dpl=dpl_3Y85MxVQNmj2PGnTr3jWedmKhyK2","/_next/static/chunks/49c5a7a27f6e13eb.js?dpl=dpl_3Y85MxVQNmj2PGnTr3jWedmKhyK2","/_next/static/chunks/391c4b1557451991.js?dpl=dpl_3Y85MxVQNmj2PGnTr3jWedmKhyK2","/_next/static/chunks/77ffa9b0397aa5e9.js?dpl=dpl_3Y85MxVQNmj2PGnTr3jWedmKhyK2","/_next/static/chunks/e84c26bbe04ad627.js?dpl=dpl_3Y85MxVQNmj2PGnTr3jWedmKhyK2","/_next/static/chunks/3a366c3516387c27.js?dpl=dpl_3Y85MxVQNmj2PGnTr3jWedmKhyK2","/_next/static/chunks/c116acaae1f2abb9.js?dpl=dpl_3Y85MxVQNmj2PGnTr3jWedmKhyK2"],"default"] 25:T48f,This page serves as the title page for the seminal work by Wei Yuan. It introduces the "Illustrated Treatise on the Maritime Kingdoms," a foundational text in 19th-century Chinese scholarship regarding the outside world. # Maritime # Kingdoms: # An Illustrated # Treatise original: "海國圖志" (Haiguo Tuzhi). This monumental work was compiled by the scholar-official Wei Yuan in 1842, following China's defeat in the First Opium War. It represents one of the first major attempts by a Chinese intellectual to systematically study the geography, politics, and technology of Western nations, famously advocating for the idea of "learning the superior techniques of the barbarians to control them."

This is the title page of the "Illustrated Treatise on the Maritime Kingdoms," a landmark 19th-century geographical work by Wei Yuan. It marks a pivotal moment in Chinese history where scholars began looking beyond the Middle Kingdom to understand global maritime powers.

Wei Yuan, Haiguo Tuzhi, Qing Dynasty, geography, cartography, maritime history, Opium War scholarship