History of the Great and Mighty Kingdom of China and the Situation Thereof

Compiled by the Padre Juan Gonzalez de Mendoza and Now Reprinted from the Early Translation of R. Parke

By:

Juan Gonzalez de Mendoza

Format:

Paperback

Series:

Cambridge Library Collection- Hakluyt First Series

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The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. The two-volume account by Juan Gonzalez de Mendoza of the history and geography of China was translated into English in 1588. It was the first detailed description of China available in English, though the introduction to this 1853 edition reviews several earlier reports by western travellers. Mendoza did not himself visit China; his first volume is derived largely from the papers of Martin de Rada, an Augustinian friar who went to China on a missionary expedition in 1575.

Release date Australia

August 31st, 2010

Author

Juan Gonzalez de Mendoza

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational

Contributors

Edited by George Staunton
Edited by Richard Henry Major
Translated by R. Parke

Country of Publication

United Kingdom

Illustrations

black & white illustrations

Imprint

Cambridge University Press

Pages

272

Publisher

Cambridge Library Collection

Series

Cambridge Library Collection- Hakluyt First Series

Dimensions

140x216x16

ISBN-13

9781108008105

Product ID

8939435

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