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History of the Great and Mighty Kingdome of China and the Situation Thereof Juan Gonzalez de Mendoza

History of the Great and Mighty Kingdome of China and the Situation Thereof By Juan Gonzalez de Mendoza

History of the Great and Mighty Kingdome of China and the Situation Thereof by Juan Gonzalez de Mendoza

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The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. This two-volume description of the history and geography of China, translated into English in 1588 and republished in 1853, was the first detailed account of China available in English.

History of the Great and Mighty Kingdome of China and the Situation Thereof Summary

History of the Great and Mighty Kingdome 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

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 The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India.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.

Table of Contents

Introduction; Dedication; To the reader; Part I: 1. The description of the kingdome; 2. Of the temperature of the kingdome of China; 3. Of the fertilitie of this kingdome; 4. Of the fertilitie of this kingdome (cont.); 5. Of the antiquitie of this kingdome; 6. The bignesse of this kingdome of China; 7. Of the 15 provinces that are in this kingdome; 8. Of the cities and townes; 9. Of the wonderful buildings in this kingdome; 10. Of the dispositions, countenance, with apparell and other exercises of the people of this countrie; Part II: 1. Of the number of gods that they do worship; 2. I do prosecute the religion they have; 3. How little they doo esteeme their idols; 4. Of lots which they doo vse; 5. Of the opinion they have of the beginning of the worlde; 6. How they hold for a certaintie that the soul is immortall; 7. Of their temples; 8. The order that they have in burying of the dead; 9. Of their ceremonies; 10. How that in all this mightie kingdome there is no poor folks; Part III: 1. How manie kinges hath beene in this kingdome; 2. Of the court and pallace of the king; 3. The number of such subjects as doo pay vnto the king tribute; 4. The tribute that the king hath; 5. Of the men of war; 6. More of the men of war; 7. Of a law among the Chinos; 8. Of the kings royall counsell; 9. Of such presidents and ministers as the king doth put in everie province; 10. How is prosecuted the manner how they do choose their governors; 11. Of the visitors that the king doth send; 12. Of their prisons they doo vse; 13. Of the characters and letters; 14. Of the examination; 15. How that with them they have had the vse of artilery; 16. Of the antiquitie and manner of printing bookes; 17. The substance and manner of those bookes; 18. The order that these Chinos observe in making bankets; 19. How they salute one another in this countrie; 20. Of the great closenesse that the women of this kingdome do live in; 21. The fashion of their ships; 22. A curious order that these Chinos have; 23. Of the curtesie that the king of this mightie kingdome doth; 24. Of the ambassage that the king of Spaine did send.

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NLS9781108008105
9781108008105
1108008100
History of the Great and Mighty Kingdome 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
Juan Gonzalez de Mendoza
History of the Great and Mighty Kingdome of China and the Situation Thereof 2 Volume Set
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Cambridge University Press
2010-08-31
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