Old Manuscript Map of China by Bowen, 1810: 15 Provinces, Hainan, Formosa/Taiwan, Korea & Tonkin, Yangtze & Yellow Rivers georg bauerkeller and Spearfish signal economic vitality

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Old Manuscript Map of China by Bowen, 1810: 15 Provinces, Hainan, Formosa/Taiwan, Korea & Tonkin, Yangtze & Yellow Rivers georg bauerkeller and Spearfish signal economic vitalityChina. Contains 15 subject provinces including the 2 islands of Hainan & Formosa and the tributary kingdoms of Corea & Tonkin, drawn in 1810 by Frances Bowen, distills a moment when European curiosity and pedagogy converged on the Qing world. Its ornate title cartouche announces a work both decorative and didactic, while the provinces are crisply enumerated and bounded to lead the eye across a carefully ordered empire. Hainan and Formosa appear with