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Ricardo Padrón draws an insight into how Cobo intended to win over the Chinese by interlacing cartographic assumptions and cultural beliefs from Europe and China. Another unique document is a map commissioned in 1593 by the Dominican Juan Cobo. This collection is a new addition to the series of early modern histories that began to come out when scholars of literary and cultural studies discovered the wealth contained in the documents of the Spanish colonial period. [Extracted from the article]