Diego Sola is Senior 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 (sixteenth to seventeenth 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.

• Prologue. Juan González de Mendoza and the European discovery of Chinaby Joan-Pau RubiésBetween Iberia and CathayAgent of God and empireThe “Chronicle of China”Visions of the Great KingdomThe chronicler’s footprintAppendixBibliographyIndex of names

Diego Sola is Senior 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 (sixteenth to seventeenth 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.

• Prologue. Juan González de Mendoza and the European discovery of Chinaby Joan-Pau RubiésBetween Iberia and CathayAgent of God and empireThe “Chronicle of China”Visions of the Great KingdomThe chronicler’s footprintAppendixBibliographyIndex of names

Diego Sola is Senior 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 (sixteenth to seventeenth 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.

• Prologue. Juan González de Mendoza and the European discovery of Chinaby Joan-Pau RubiésBetween Iberia and CathayAgent of God and empireThe “Chronicle of China”Visions of the Great KingdomThe chronicler’s footprintAppendixBibliographyIndex of names