作者  (1545年～1618年)

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　　胡安·冈萨雷斯·德·门多萨（Juan González de Mendoza,1545-1618），西班牙人，17岁至墨西哥，19岁加入奥古斯丁修会，潜心研究神学、语法和艺术，热心传教。他曾受命出使中国，未遂。后应教皇之命，广泛搜集关于中国的资料，历时两年，于1585年印行《中华大帝国史》。他曾被任命为西西里岛利巴利主教、恰巴斯省主教和波帕扬地区主教。

　　Juan González de Mendoza (c. 1540–1617) was the author of the first Western history of China to publish Chinese characters for Western delectation. Published by him in 1586, Historia de las cosas más notables, ritos y costumbres del gran reyno de la China is an account of observations several Spanish travelers in China. An English translation by Robert Parke appeared in 1588 and was reprinted by the Hakluyt Society in two volumes, edited by Sir George T. Staunton, Bart. (London, 1853–54).
　　
　　Mendoza's Historia may have been the first book-length work on China published in Europe since the days of Marco Polo. It was mostly superseded in 1615 by the work of much more informed Jesuit missionaries who actually lived in China, Matteo Ricci and Nicolas Trigault, De Christiana expeditione apud Sinas.
　　
　　BiographyMendoza was born at Toledo. He joined the army but after some years resigned to enter the Order of Saint Augustine. He based his most famous text on the journals of Miguel de Luarca, whose 1580 trip to Ming China provided a simple majority thereof. He never set foot in China, but spent two years in Mexico before returning to Spain. He was afterward Bishop of the Lipari Islands, of Chiapas, and of Popayán, where he died – honoured as a Spanish prelate.
　　
　　 Juan González de Mendoza's works on-lineHistoria de las cosas más notables, ritos y costumbres del gran reyno de la China (original Spanish; Rome, 1585)
　　
　　The history of the great and mighty kingdom of China and the situation thereof (English translation by Robert Parke, 1588, in an 1853 reprint by Hakluyt Society); vol. 2.
　　
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