William H. McNEILL
The oldest printed map in any culture, a map of West China (Di Li chin Tou) in the Liu Qing Tou (Illustrations of Objects mentioned in the Six Classics), an encyclopedia circa 1155 BCE. Province names are written in white on black, and the line of the Great Wall is clearly visible along the top half of the map.
For millennia China has influenced and been influenced by the world—scientifically, agriculturally, politically, culturally, and economically—and
