海國圖志
hǎi​guó​tú​zhì

Illustrated Treatise on the Maritime Kingdoms

  • created sense approved 海国图志/海國圖志 · hǎi​guó​tú​zhì · Illustrated Treatise on the Maritime Kingdoms — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    海国图志 / 海國圖志

    hǎi​guó​tú​zhì

    Illustrated Treatise on the Maritime Kingdoms

    A historical geography of the world compiled in the late Qing Dynasty by Wei Yuan, famous for the slogan "learn from foreigners to control them"; it introduced Western technology, history, and geography to China and significantly influenced later reform movements.

    海国 (literal) → 海国/海國 · hǎi​guó · maritime country 图 (literal) → 图/圖 · tú · picture 志 (literal) → 志/誌 · zhì · records

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

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