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海國圖志(36)
Only partial translations or excerpts exist. This is the first complete English translation.
The 'Haiguo Tuzhi' (Illustrated Gazetteer of the Maritime Kingdoms) is a massive 100-juan work of which only excerpts and selections have been translated into English. Search results confirm the existence of partial translations in scholarly anthologies and studies, such as those by Teng and Fairbank (1954) and Jane Kate Leonard (1984), but no record of a complete, full-text English translation was found in any of the searched catalogs.
China's Response to the West: A Documentary Survey, 1839-1923, trans. Ssu-yü Teng and John King Fairbank (1979) [excerpts] source
Wei Yüan and China’s Rediscovery of the Maritime World, trans. Jane Kate Leonard (Analysis/Excerpts) (2020) [excerpts] source
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Step into the 19th-century mind of Wei Yuan as he maps the radical transformations of the Americas, from the rise of 'kingless' republics to the legendary 'Land of Giants.' Discover a pioneering Chinese perspective on global inflation, volcanic landscapes, and the collapse of colonial empires.
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