Taking Yuan Qingshou’s “Urban Plan of Jiangning” 江甯省城圖 in the late Qing Dynasty as an example, this paper investigates how maps reproduce and interpret urban space. The Taiping Rebellion inflicted severe damage to the urban space of Nanjing. The map series “Urban Plan of Jiangning” reshaped a virtual urban space by marking the abandoned landscapes and writing historical allusions at that time. The contrast between graphic space and actual space emphasizes the history and culture of Nanjing through the combination of words and images. After the Taiping Rebellion, the maps helped to inherit the urban memory, and affected the image of Nanjing as the capital during the Republic Era through reprinting and dissemination. [Go to the full record in the library's catalogue]
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