Shijie xiangxiang: Xixue dongjian yu Mingqing hanwen Dili wenxian 世界想像: 西學東漸與明清漢文地理文獻 (Imagination of the World: The Eastward Reflections of Western Learning and Chinese Geographical Documents in the Ming and Qing Dynasties): Zou Zhenhuan鄒振環, Beijing: Zhonghua Book Company, 2022. ISBN:978-7-101-15843-4. RMB: 78

For example, in the first chapter, Zou not only analyzed Matteo Ricci's consideration of Chinese reality in the Chinese context during the process of drawing the world map. In the process of actively learning world knowledge in the late Qing, the development of "world imagination" and the formation of "world consciousness" became clear. Zou clearly pointed out in what sense the world map Matteo Ricci drew is the first Chinese world map (p. 66). [Extracted from the article]