Atlas Chinensis: Being a second part of a relation of remarkable passages in two embassies from the East-India company of the United provinces, to the Vice-Roy Singlamong and General Taising Lipovi, and to Konchi, emperor of China and East-Tartary

Atlas Chinensis: Being a second part of a relation of remarkable passages in two embassies from the East-India company of the United provinces, to the Vice-Roy Singlamong and General Taising Lipovi, and to Konchi, emperor of China and East-Tartary

DS708 .M63

1671

In the 17th century, after achieving independence from Spain, the Netherlands entered its Golden Age, a period of great wealth and power that was based on trade with the East. Atlas Chinensis, originally written in Dutch, recounts two embassies of the Dutch East India Company to China. It provides detailed descriptions of geography and the customs, social life, and government of the people.

723 pages

Asia - China Collection, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Library

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