Elke Papelitzky

Associate Professor - China Studies

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Email elke.papelitzky@ikos.uio.no

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Visiting address Niels Henrik Abels vei 36 0371 Oslo

Postal address Postboks 1010 Blindern 0315 Oslo

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Academic interests

I am interested in the history Chinese mapmaking, maritime history, and China in a global context with a focus on the fifteenth to early nineteenth centuries.

Background

I received my PhD in history from the University of Salzburg and have worked as a postdoc at LMU Munich, NYU Shanghai, and KU Leuven.

Papelitzky, Elke (2024). Making a Case for Trade: Shi Shipiao’s Map of the Eastern and Southern Oceans. East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine (EAST). ISSN 1562-918X. 56(1), p. 48–89. doi: 10.1163/26669323-20241014.
Papelitzky, Elke (2024). Red Lines in the Ocean: Sea Routes on Early Modern East Asian Maps. Imago mundi. ISSN 0308-5694. 75(2), p. 293–299. doi: 10.1080/03085694.2023.2281136. Full text in Research Archive
Papelitzky, Elke & Pegg, Richard A. (2024). The Blue Maps of China: Considerations of Materiality and Function in China and Japan, Maps and Colours: A Complex Relationship. Brill Academic Publishers. ISSN 9789004467354. p. 190–204. doi: 10.1163/9789004467361_015. Full text in Research Archive
Papelitzky, Elke (2024). World Maps from Japan Reimagined in Japan. In Cams, Mario & Papelitzky, Elke (Ed.), Remapping the world in East Asia: Toward a global history of the "Ricci maps". University of Hawai'i Press. ISSN 9780824895044. p. 159–187.
Papelitzky, Elke (2023). Old and New Views on the “Barbarians”: The 1612 Fangyu shenglüe 方輿勝略. Transpacific Research Notes. ISSN 2796-1184.

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Cams, Mario & Papelitzky, Elke (2024). Remapping the world in East Asia: Toward a global history of the "Ricci maps". University of Hawai'i Press. ISBN 9780824895044. 328 p.

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Cams, Mario & Papelitzky, Elke (2024). Introduction: Remapping the World in East Asia. In Cams, Mario & Papelitzky, Elke (Ed.), Remapping the world in East Asia: Toward a global history of the "Ricci maps". University of Hawai'i Press. ISSN 9780824895044. p. 1–17.
Papelitzky, Elke (2023). <BOOK REVIEW>The Japanese Buddhist World Map : Religious Vision and the Cartographic Imagination, by D. Max Moerman. Japan Review. ISSN 0915-0986. 38, p. 281–283. doi: 10.15055/0002000090.

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