"This book is highly illuminating, well-researched, and beautifully produced. At the intersection of Sinology, history of cartography, and art history, scholars from any of these fields would find enough familiar and new to make the book both accessible and enlightening."

The Portolan

“This book serves as a much-needed intervention in the field, which often views these excavated diagrams as ‘maps’ that mark some stage in the history of Chinese cartography. This innovative study fills a very glaring hole in the field of early Chinese material and visual culture.”

Anthony Barbieri, University of California, Santa Barbara

“The Art of Terrestrial Diagrams in Early China is a commendable work. It is notable for a number of reasons that lend Wang’s study a distinct edge, energizing Chinese studies and contributing to the general literature on mapping.”

Eugene Y. Wang, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art, Harvard University

“Wang’s innovative and lavishly illustrated book makes a substantial contribution to the field of early China while bringing early Chinese diagrams and maps to the English-speaking scholarly world. Through a deep engagement with the scholarship on these materials, Wang’s analysis places them into conversation with a wide variety of other documents from the period.”

Brian Lander, Brown University