The Indies of the Setting Sun: How Early Modern Spain Mapped the Far East as the Transpacific West: By Ricardo Padrón, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2020. 346 pp. $45.00 (HB). ISBN: 9780226455679.

Here, the author studies how China was integrated into Spain's expansionist strategy using the works of Bernardino Escalante and Juan Gonzalez de Mendoza. Historian Ricardo Padrón's I The Indies of the Setting Sun: How Early Modern Spain Mapped the Far East as the Transpacific West i attempts to understand how, in discursive and visual terms, the Spanish crown sought to project its geopolitical and historical influence in the world from the sixteenth century forward. The Indies of the Setting Sun: How Early Modern Spain Mapped the Far East as the Transpacific West: By Ricardo Padrón, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2020. [Extracted from the article]