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“…[This book] helps contribute to the revision of the existing literature on the Chinese and Chinese mestizos with a new perspective that highlights the emerging field of transnational studies.” - Prof. Augusto Espiritu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“…the author does an outstanding job and we recommend that citizens of the Philippine ‘nation,’ whether they see themselves as ‘Chinese’ or ‘Filipino’ would do well to read this work and understand the origins of the racial stereotypes that influence the way they look at particular members of Philippine society, particularly in Manila.” - Prof. Ellen Palanca and Prof. Clark Alejandrino, Ateneo de Manila University
"...an ambitious study of the Chinese and first-generation Chinese mestizos of Manila...[the author] has added valuable research materials from Philippine and American archival collections and...a wide range of published primary sources...The book is meticulously annotated and rich in descriptive detail..." - Michael Cullinane, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“…[This book] helps contribute to the revision of the existing literature on the Chinese and Chinese mestizos with a new perspective that highlights the emerging field of transnational studies.” - Prof. Augusto Espiritu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“…the author does an outstanding job and we recommend that citizens of the Philippine ‘nation,’ whether they see themselves as ‘Chinese’ or ‘Filipino’ would do well to read this work and understand the origins of the racial stereotypes that influence the way they look at particular members of Philippine society, particularly in Manila.” - Prof. Ellen Palanca and Prof. Clark Alejandrino, Ateneo de Manila University
"...an ambitious study of the Chinese and first-generation Chinese mestizos of Manila...[the author] has added valuable research materials from Philippine and American archival collections and...a wide range of published primary sources...The book is meticulously annotated and rich in descriptive detail..." - Michael Cullinane, University of Wisconsin-Madison
-Asian cultural exchange, the larg- est contingent of Asians arrived as sailors on the galleons and smaller vessels ( capitanas , pataches , and almirantes ) that annually plied the long (six months or longer) and perilous return voyage from Manila. Th e seamen were primar- ily Filipinos, Chinese mestizos (known
W O N G K W O K C H U | B O O K R E V I E W S 1 6 2 © J O U R N A L O F C H I N E S E O V E R S E A S 3 , 1 ( M A Y 2 0 0 7 ) : 1 6 2 – 1 6 4 Tsinoy. The Story of the Chinese in Philippine Life . Edited by Teresita ANG SEE, GO Bon Juan, Doreen GO YU and Yvonne CHUA. Manila: Kaisa Para Sa
Wong Kwok Chu, in The Chinese in the Philippine Economy, 1898–1941, and Richard Chu, in “Rethinking the Chinese Mestizos in the Philippines,” 1 and “Catholic, Mestizo, Spaniard, Filipino: Negotiating Chinese Identities at the turn of Twentieth-century Manila.” 2 What I find most impressive is the
’s office in Manila. Two companies and three Chinese mestizo 61 businessmen participated in the tendering process after paying the 200-peso bond. Each of the companies, Smith Bell & Co. and Warner, Blodgett & Co., bid 8 pesos per Chinese deportee. Lino Paneng and Pablo Go Loco, both from Binondo, bid 7
-1943: A Trans-Pacific Community). Beijing: Peking University Press, 2009. Pp. 381. ISBN: 978-7301157176. Chin, Woon Ping. Hakka Soul: Memories, Migrations, and Meals . Singapore: Singapore University Press, 2008. Pp. 216. ISBN: 978-9971694005. Chu, Richard T. Chinese and Chinese Mestizos of Manila: Family
of Binondo in the Nineteenth Century . Manila: Univer- sity of Santo Tomas Press, 2010. Pp. 108. ISBN: 978-9715065641. ———. Chinese and Chinese Mestizos of Manila: Family, Identity and Culture, 1860s- 1930s . Leiden: Brill, 2010. Pp. xx, 451. ISBN: 978-9004173392. 140 Book News / Journal of
political issues in the South China Sea. Since the Spaniards established Manila in 1571, contact with Ming China happened largely through commercial networks. Fujianese trade provided all the commodities needed both for the Spanish Manila galleon and the colony itself. However, the fall of the Ming
China Seas, 1620–83 ,” in Persistent Piracy: Maritime Violence and State-Formation in Global Historical Perspective , edited by Amirell Stefan and Müller Leos , 93 – 112 . New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2014 . Chu Richard . Chinese and Chinese Mestizos of Manila