Along with the Travels of Marco Polo and the diaries of Matteo Ricci, it was one of the most widely read books on China ever to be published in pre-modern Europe. The impression of China held by Spaniards at that time was based largely on the work of Gonzalez de Mendoza. Spain was interested in China for a number of reasons.
可謂繼馬可波羅東遊記之後、利瑪竇日記公佈之前，敘述有關中國書籍中流傳最廣的重要著作，當時西班牙人對中國的印象大半據此而來。