Keywords: Mendoza-1585-f134.png en Page 134 Part I Book III Chapter XIII of Historia de las cosas más notables ritos y costumbres del gran reyno de la China by Juan González de Mendoza The first edition 1585 This is possibly the first European book that gives or rather attempts to give examples of Chinese characters This page gives a character for city presumably a very poorly written 城 This is discussed in the footnotes http //www archive org/details/historyofgreatmi14151gonz 1853 Hakluyt Society annotated edition of the 1588 English translation 1585 http //gallica bnf fr/ark /12148/bpt6k75292n Historia de las cosas más notables ritos y costumbres del gran reyno de la China p 134 c 1540 “ 1617 PD-old-100 Uploaded with UploadWizard Historia de las cosas más notables ritos y costumbres del gran reyno de la China Chinese characters |