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. Volume 1 / Juan Gonzalez de Mendoza ; edited by George Staunton and Richard Henry Major.
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 The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to...
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| Other title: | History of the Great & Mighty Kingdome of China & the Situation Thereof |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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2010.
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| Series: | Cambridge library collection. Hakluyt First Series.
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| Summary: | 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 The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India.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 González 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780511695773 0511695772 1108008100 9781108008105 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/CBO9780511695773 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 23, 2019). |