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La empresa de China,
profecías, mesianismo
monárquico y expansión en
el Pacífico en Historia de las
cosas más notables, ritos y
costumbres, del gran Reyno de
la China, de Juan González de
Mendoza
Ismael Artiga

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Colegio San José , Valladolid
Published online: 09 Jun 2011.

To cite this article: Ismael Artiga (2011) La empresa de China, profecías, mesianismomonárquico y expansión en el Pacífico en Historia de las cosas más notables, ritos
y costumbres, del gran Reyno de la China, de Juan González de Mendoza, Romance
Quarterly, 58:3, 165-182, DOI: 10.1080/08831157.2011.576908
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Romance Quarterly, 58: 165–182, 2011
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ISSN: 0883-1157 print / 1940-3216 online
DOI: 10.1080/08831157.2011.576908

La empresa de China, profec´ıas,
mesianismo mon´arquico y
expansi´on en el Pac´ıficoen
Historia de las cosas m´as
notables, ritos y costumbres, del
gran Reyno de la China, de
Juan Gonz´alez de Mendoza
Ismael Artiga
Abstract: I am parting from the premise that poets and writers such as Juan
Gonz´alez de Mendoza wrote literary works commissioned by the Philippine
colony oligarchy in order to influence the Habsburg Court, to continue the
imperial expansion in Asia. InHistoria de la China, Juan Gonz´alez de Mendoza
offers to the Spanish Court and the King a messianic discourse proclaiming
that the overtaking of Asia by the Spanish throne would be understood as
a divine plan for the recuperation of the kingdom of Jerusalem and the
conclusion of the medieval biblical prophecies.
Keywords: Asia, biblical prophecies, Maecenas, Philippine colony

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a iron´ıacon la que Miguel de Cervantes se refiere a China en la
segunda parte de Don Quijote de la Mancha, no debi´o sorprender
a sus contempor´aneos peninsulares.1 Para entonces, media Europa
hab´ıa ya so˜nado con las riquezas del Celeste Imperio y la otra
media conoc´ıa de su existencia, ritos y costumbres con certeza. A Marco Polo

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