China Baroqueries, ca. 1620: Francisco de Herrera Maldonado on the Chinese Language

• Published in: The Seventeenth century Vol. 35; no. 5; pp. 579 - 609
• Main Author: Luca, Dinu
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Durham Routledge 02.09.2020; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: Calligraphy; Chinese language; Chinese languages; Chinese writing; French language; Herrera Maldonado; Herrera Maldonado, Francisco de; Kircher, Athanasius (1602-1680); Linguistics; Otherness; Spanish language; Western perceptions of China; China

This article focuses on the reflections on Chinese language and script included by Francisco de Herrera Maldonado (a minor figure in the Spanish Golden Age) in his little-known 1620 Historical Epitome of the Kingdom of China ... By translating and commenting on the relevant contexts from both the Sp...