明朝萬歷年間,意大利傳教士利瑪竇所編譯的世界地圖,為中國人打開了學習西方科學知識的窗戶,也記錄下了晚明時期國人世界觀中的域外想象。而在《坤輿萬國全圖》等作品中之所以會摻雜著女人國、長人國等"海外臝蟲",正是因為描繪了大量海外異人的《臝蟲錄》借助日用類書等通俗出版物的影響,不斷擴大其受眾范圍,最終塑造了以"海外臝蟲"為特征的大明世界觀,進而影響到了西方知識在中國的譯介與傳播。所以憑借對利瑪竇世界地圖的研究,正可以揭示市民文化的時代作用,還原晚明時期市民與精英、中國與西方的文化互動。

During the Wanli regime of the Ming Dynasty,the Italian missionary Matteo Ricci produced a world map which opened the window for Chinese people to learn western scientific knowledge and recorded the late Ming people’s imagination about the outside world with their particular world view.The appearance of "alien beings" such as the kingdom of women and the kingdom of tall men in works like Kunyu Wanguo Quantu(坤輿萬國全圖)is the result of the widespread of Records of Alien Beings through popular books,Encyclopedias for Daily Use(日用類書),which enlarged its readers and formed the Ming’s world view characterized by alien beings,and then affected Western knowledge translation and dissemination in China.Therefore,through a study on Matteo Ricci’s world map,this article tries to reveal the effect of the civil culture in its times and re-present the complicated interactions between common people and the elite,both in China and the West in the late Ming Dynasty.