The Chronicler of China

ISBN-13: 9781032441900 / Twarda / 2024 / 304 str.

Diego Sola Garcia

Opis

This monograph provides an analysis and contextualization of an extraordinarily successful book, the History of the Great Kingdom of China (Rome 1585), by the Spanish Augustinian friar Juan González de Mendoza (1545-1618).

Spis treści

Prologue. Juan González de Mendoza and the European discovery of China

by Joan-Pau Rubiés

 

Between Iberia and Cathay

Agent of God and empire

The “Chronicle of China”

Visions of the Great Kingdom

The chronicler’s footprint

 

Appendix

Bibliography

Index of names

O autorze

Diego Sola is Lecturer of Early Modern History at the University of Barcelona, where he obtained his PhD with the Extraordinary Doctoral Prize of the Faculty of History in 2015. His academic research is mainly focused on the Iberian religious in China and the Philippines as cultural creators and mediators during the Early Modern Era (16th -18th centuries), as well as the process of building of a specific image of Asia in the monarchies of Spain and Portugal through the textual productions of the missionaries.