Mapping ancient Chinese Antarctica

• Main Author: Forêt, Philippe
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Oestasiatiska Museet 2001
• Subjects: cultural studies; Chinese Antarctica; cartography; carto-controversy; cultural landscape; metaphorical landscape; Base Great Wall (Chang Cheng zhan); Fildes Peninsula (King George Island; Chile); Antarctic Treaty; Chinese Antarctic Research Expedition (CHINARE); Chinese nationalism; Antarctic; Fildes; Fildes peninsula; King George Island; Antarc*; Antarctica; Iceberg*
• Online Access: http://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/215110/

Western mass media have granted a spiritual character to Antarctica and described the continent as offering much more to the travelers than an exotic landscape of floating icebergs and crazy penguins. Antarctica provides a popular topic for introspective travelogues, science fiction novels, and acco...