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This page is the front cover of Wei Yuan’s "Illustrated Treatise on the Maritime Kingdoms," a seminal 19th-century Chinese geographical work. It marks the beginning of modern Chinese efforts to understand Western geography, military technology, and political systems.

Wei Yuan, Haiguo Tuzhi, Qing Dynasty, Maritime History, Geography, Modernization, Opium War