Richard J. Smith is the George and Nancy Rupp Professor of Humanities and Professor of History at Rice University, USA

This book brings together a selection of essays by Richard J. Smith, one of the foremost scholars of Chinese intellectual and cultural history. Mapping China and Managing the World focuses on Chinese constructions of order and examines the most important ways in which elites in late imperial China sought to order their vast and variegated world, and will be welcomed by Chinese and East Asian historians, as well as those interested more broadly in the culture of China and East Asia.

1. Introduction 2. The Languages of the Yijing and the Representation of Reality 3. Mapping China's World: Cultural Cartography in Late Imperial China 4. Ritual in Qing Culture 5. The Teachings of Ritual and the Rectification of Customs: Echos of Tradition in the Political Culture of Modern China 6. Divination in Qing Culture 7. Jesuit Interpretations of the Yijing in Global Perspective