Abstract
An aerial view of the city of Hangzhou, showing its buildings, canals and bridges, and junks in the surrounding water. This unusual plan perpetuates the description of Hangzhou given by Marco Polo in the late 12th century: its 12000 bridges, its massive network of canals, its paved roads and its large lake with island pavilions and palaces upon it. Jansson reproduced this information with fanciful embellishment. This is the only plan of China and the Far East to appear in Jansson's "Theatrum Urbium Celebriorum" (Amsterdam, 1657).
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