Richard J. SMITH
The Huayi tu (“Map of China and the Barbarians,” 1136, one of the most famous examples of early Chinese maps. This 3-meter-square work, carved in stone, boasts nearly five hundred place names and identifies a about dozen rivers. The map depicts a few foreign lands—notably Korea and India—but it represents more than a hundred different groups of “barbarian” peoples only by written notes in the margins. Several of these notes refer
