In 1585, Juan Gonzalez de Mendoza wrote a history of China (Historia del Gran Reino de la China) based on oral accounts from Spanish and Portuguese travelers who had been to China (though they had only actually been to the provinces of Guangdong and Fujian).
一五八五年，作家貢撒列思根據一些曾到中國（具體而言，僅廣東、福建兩地）的西班牙、葡萄牙人口述中，寫成一本書，叫《大支那王國史》。