Email

mariocams@um.edu.mo

Tel

(853) 8822 4258

Office

E21-2024

Consultation Hours

Mondays and Thursdays
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.

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