
mariocams@um.edu.mo
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E21-2024
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16:00–18:00
Mario CAMS
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Introduction
Mario obtained his Ph.D. from KU Leuven (Belgium) in 2015, after having completed a project that focused on exchanges in cartographic knowledge between Europe and Asia at the turn of the 18th century. He is the author of Companions in Geography: East-West Collaboration in the Mapping of Qing China (c.1685–1735) (Leiden: Brill, 2017) and laureate of the 2019 Imago Mundi Prize and the 2017 Prize for Young Scholars from the International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology. Mario co-founded QingMaps.org, a digital humanities platform that aims to provide a research and teaching tool for the exploration and the study of Qing-era maps. His research interests are wide-ranging, although most published work has centered on the intersection of early modern global connections, late imperial China, and the history of the map and mapping technologies.
Education
Academic Degrees
- Ph.D. (Maxima cum laude), KU Leuven, 2015
- M.A. (Magna cum laude), KU Leuven, 2010
- B.A. (Cum laude), KU Leuven, 2009
Academic Stays
- Harvard University, 2013
- China Southwest University, 2006–2007
Research Interests
- Global/Eurasian History
- History of Science and Technology
- History of the Map and Mapping Technologies
- Late Imperial China (Ming-Qing History)
- Qing-Manchu Studies
- Renaissance and Early Modern Europe
Courses Regularly Taught
- World History Through Maps (General Education)
- Worldviews and Mapping in History (Undergraduate Elective)
- Advanced Historical Theory and Practice (Graduate Compulsory)
- Advanced Writing Seminar (Graduate Compulsory)
- Western Civilizations II: 1500–2000 (Undergraduate Compulsory)
- History of Modern East Asia: 1800–2000 (Undergraduate Compulsory)
- Association for Asian Studies
- European Association of Chinese Studies
- International Society for the History of East Asian Science, Technology and Medicine
- International Society for the History of the Map
- KU Leuven SinAlumni
Academic Prizes
- 2019–2020 Outstanding Academic Staff Incentive Award (University of Macau)
- 2019 Imago Mundi Prize (International Journal for the History of Cartography)
- 2017–2018 FSS Emerging Scholar Award (University of Macau)
- 2017 DHST Prize for Young Scholars (International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology)
Selected Grants and Scholarships
- 2021-2023 UM Multi-Year Research Grant: Ming-Qing Cartography and Geography in the Global History of Science
- 2020–2021 Macau Higher Education Bureau Subsidy Scheme for the Humanities and Social Sciences: QingMaps 2.0 Phase II
- 2019 Macau Higher Education Bureau Subsidy Scheme for the Humanities and Social Sciences: QingMaps 2.0 Phase I
- 2017–2020 UM Multi-Year Research Grant: Qing Imperial Cartography
- 2016–2018 UM Startup Research Grant: Companions in Geography
Monographs:
- Companions in Geography: East-West Collaboration in the Mapping of Qing China (c.1685–1735). Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2017.
Journal Articles:
- Reimagining Qing Space: Yongzheng’s Eurasian Atlas (1727–8). Late Imperial China 42:1 (2021). In Press.
- Displacing China: The Martini-Blaeu Novus Atlas Sinensis and the Late Renaissance Shift in Representations of East Asia. Renaissance Quarterly 73:3 (2020), 953–990. [read here]
- De Novus Atlas Sinensis (1655) van Martini en Blaeu en zijn Chinese bronnen. Caert Thresoor 38:4 (2019), 3–17 [in Dutch].
- Blurring the Boundaries: Integrating Techniques of Land Surveying on the Qing’s Mongolian Frontier. East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine 46 (2018), 25–46.
- Displacing Jesuit Science in Qing China. East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine 46 (2018), 15-23. Co-authored with Wu Huiyi & Alexander Statman.
- Converging Interests and Scientific Circulation between Paris and Beijing (1685–1735): The Path Towards a New Qing Cartographic Practice. Revue d’histoire des sciences 70:1 (2017), 47–78.
- Not Just a Jesuit Atlas of China: Qing Imperial Cartography and Its European Connections. Imago Mundi 69:2 (2017), 188–201.
- Guest Editor’s Introduction: Recent Additions to the New Qing History Debate. Contemporary Chinese Thought 47:1 (2016), 1–4.
- Restituting Church Buildings and Negotiating Church Factions: Missionary Mapmakers and the Making of Local Networks (1712–1716). Frontiers of History in China 4:9 (2014), 489–505.
- The discovery of Chinese Rites Controversy documents in a branch of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Sino-Western Cultural Relations Journal 35 (2013), 48–56.
- The China Maps of Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d’Anville: Origins and Supporting Networks. Imago Mundi 66:1 (2013), 51-69.
- ‘Companions in Geography’: The Sino-European Effort to Measure China, c.1685–1735. Imago Mundi, 66:1 (2013), 143–144.
- The Early Qing Geographical Surveys (1708–1716) as a Case of Collaboration between the Jesuits and the Kangxi Court. Sino-Western Cultural Relations Journal 34 (2012), 1–20.
Book chapters:
- Les missions jésuites en Extrême-Orient et les échanges de connaissances cartographiques (XVIIe–XVIIIe siècles). In: Le monde en sphères, Paris: BnF Éditions, 2019, 160–166 [in French].
- The printed life of the ‘Huangyu quanlan tu’ 皇輿全覽圖. In: Saraiva, Luís & Catherine Jami (eds.). History of Mathematical Sciences – Portugal and East Asia: Visual and Textual Representations in Exchanges Between Europe and East Asia 16th–18th Centuries, Singapore: World Scientific Publishing, 2018, 245–266.
- Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d’Anville and the ‘Nouvel atlas de la Chine’. In: O’Malley J., Ribeiro R. (eds.), Jesuit Mapmaking in China: D’Anville’s “Nouvelle [sic] Atlas de la Chine” (1737), (Early Modern Catholicism and the Visual Arts Series 11), Philadelphia: St. Joseph’s University Press, 2014, 37–50.
- The Early Qing Geographical Surveys (1708–1718) as seen through the ‘Folded Memorials with Vermillion Endorsement of the Kangxi Reign’. In: Globalization and Glocalization in China, Leiden: Shilin, 2012, 203–250.
Edited volumes:
- Mapping Asia: Cartographic Encounters Between East and West. Heidelberg/Amsterdam/New York: Springer (2019). With Martijn Storms, Ferjan Ormeling, & Imre Demhardt.
- East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine 46 (2018). With Wu Huiyi & Alexander Statman.
- Recent Additions to the New Qing History Debate. Contemporary Chinese Thought 47:1 (2016).
Book reviews:
- Global Entanglements of a Man Who Never Traveled: A Seventeenth-Century Chinese Christian and His Conflicted Worlds (Dominic Sachsenmaier). Ming Studies 79 (2019), 80–82.
- Rooted in Hope: China—Religion—Christianity/In der Hoffnung verwurzelt (Barbara Hoster, Dirk Kuhlmann, and Zbigniew Wesolowski, eds.). China Review International 23:4 (2018): 371–375.
Popular publications and online contributions:
- Online Exhibit: Mapping Asia for Museum Volkenkunde [in Dutch and English]
- At the Borders of Qing Imperial Cartography, In: China Connections: The Newsletter of the International Institute for Asian Studies 84 (2019).
- The Malcolm Young Lecture 2019: The Martini-Blaeu Novus Atlas Sinensis, In: IMCOS Journal 158 (2019).
- Three times Nurhaci, In: Debtelin 2 (2018), 126–131.
- De Kangxi-kaart, In: Debtelin 1 (2016). [in Dutch]
- De barsten in onze bubbel, In: De Standaard (2015). [in Dutch]
- Kangxi-Verbiest hemelglobe, In: Uit het Erasmushuis 4 (2014), 132–135. [in Dutch]
- Het ongelukkige geschenk van Angela Merkel aan Xi Jinping, In: Knack Online (2014) [in Dutch]
- Who were the Manchu Mapmakers?, In: Manchu Studies Group Online (2014).
- De kaart van Merkel, In: KU Leuven blogt (2014) [in Dutch]
- Ancient maps that cause a stir in modern politics: d’Anville’s map of China, In: The Brussels Map Circle Newsletter 50 (2014).
- The Journey of a Manchu Map, In: Manchu Studies Group Online (2013).
- Manchu as a Tool Language for European Missionaries, In: Manchu Studies Group Online (2013).
- ThingsThatTalk student projects: [Napoleon’s Box] [Vietnam War Zippo] [French Wig Holder]