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LuMing Mao, Professor of Rhetoric and Writing Studies, Asian Center Faculty Affiliate, University of Utah. The event is free and open to the public.

 

“Cartography as Rhetoric: Centering China and Mapping a World”

In 1602 the Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci published a woodblock printed mappamondo in Chinese in which he placed China—the other—in the center of the map. Ricci’s cartographic move raises a set of important questions for the twenty-first century. How do we engage in cross-cultural encounters when irreducible power asymmetry or universalizing design begins to rear its ugly head? How do maps—commodities of knowledge and power—shape and legitimate a way to look upon space as open to physical and intellectual appropriation and colonization? What historical lessons can we draw from Ricci—the cartographer, the rhetorician, and the evangelist all rolled into one—as he negotiated between self and other, between accommodation and enculturation, and between Confucianism and Western Christendom in the late Ming China? This talk explores these questions and proposes the concept of rhetorical togetherness that challenges a hierarchical and exclusionary form of binary logic and promotes dialectical interactions resulting in transformation through fluidity and stability, across space and time, and between multiplicity and singularity.

 

Event Type: Lecture

Audience: All Audiences

Departments Filters: Colleges, College of A&S, English, Religion, History, Modern Language and Linguistics

Cost: Free

Contact Name: Tarez Graban / tgraban@fsu.edu

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