The Chinese Mestizos and the Formation of the Filipino Nationality
Author : Antonio S. Tan
Publisher :
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 35,19 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Chinese
ISBN :
Author : Antonio S. Tan
Publisher :
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 35,19 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Chinese
ISBN :
Author : Richard Chu
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 17,75 MB
Release : 2010-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9047426851
For centuries, the Chinese have been intermarrying with inhabitants of the Philippines, resulting in a creolized community of Chinese mestizos under the Spanish colonial regime. In contemporary Philippine society, the “Chinese” are seen as a racialized “Other” while descendants from early Chinese-Filipino intermarriages as “Filipino.” Previous scholarship attributes this development to the identification of Chinese mestizos with the equally “Hispanicized” and “Catholic” indios. Building on works in Chinese transnationalism and cultural anthropology, this book examines the everyday practices of Chinese merchant families in Manila from the 1860s to the 1930s. The result is a fascinating study of how families and individuals creatively negotiate their identities in ways that challenge our understanding of the genesis of ethnic identities in the Philippines. “...[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
Author : Teresita Ang See
Publisher :
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 17,20 MB
Release : 1997
Category : China
ISBN :
Author : Caroline S. Hau
Publisher : 京都大学学術出版会
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 16,92 MB
Release : 2014-02
Category : Reference
ISBN :
The rising strength of mainland China has spurred a revival of "Chineseness" in the Philippines. Perceived during the Cold War era as economically dominant, politically disloyal, and culturally different, the "Chinese" presented themselves as an integral part of the Filipino imagined community. Today, as Filipinos seek associations with China, many of them see the local Chinese community as key players in East Asian regional economic development. With the revaluing of Chineseness has come a repositioning of "Chinese" racial and cultural identity. Philippine mestizos (people of mixed ancestry) form an important subgroup of the Filipino elite, but their Chineseness was occluded as they disappeared into the emergent Filipino nation. In the twentieth century, mestizos defined themselves and based claims to privilege on "white" ancestry, but mestizos are now actively reclaiming their "Chinese" heritage. At the same time, so-called "pure Chinese" are parlaying their connections into cultural, social, symbolic, or economic capital, and leaders of mainland Chinese state companies have entered into politico-business alliances with the Filipino national elite. As the meanings of "Chinese" and "Filipino" evolve, intractable contradictions are appearing in the concepts of citizenship and national belonging. Through an examination of cinematic and literary works, The Chinese Question shows how race, class, ideology, nationality, territory, sovereignty, and mobility are shaping the discourses of national integration, regional identification, and global cosmopolitanism.
Author : Edgar Wickberg
Publisher : New Haven, Yale University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 37,81 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Scholarly study of the development of an oversea Chinese community, presented as a significant phenomenon in the modern history of Asia.
Author : Leo Suryadinata
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 26,18 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789813035119
The bibliographical essays on the studies of the ethnic Chinese in the ASEAN states will be extremely useful as it is the first monograph of its kind and also up-to-date. It begins with a general overview on the studies of the ethnic Chinese in the ASEAN states, and is followed by five country studies and two essays on specific topics. All essays in this volume were written by specialists.
Author : Andrew R. Wilson
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 11,36 MB
Release : 2004-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824826505
What binds overseas Chinese communities together? Traditionally scholars have stressed the interplay of external factors (discrimination, local hostility) and internal forces (shared language, native-place ties, family) to account for the cohesion and "Chineseness" of these overseas groups. Andrew Wilson challenges this Manichean explanation of identity by introducing a third factor: the ambitions of the Chinese merchant elite, which played an equal, if not greater, role in the formation of ethnic identity among the Chinese in colonial Manila. Drawing on Chinese, Spanish, and American sources and applying a broad range of historiographical approaches, this volume dissects the structures of authority and identity within Manila’s Chinese community over a period of dramatic socioeconomic change and political upheaval. It reveals the ways in which wealthy Chinese merchants dealt in not only goods and services, but also political influence and the movement of human talent from China to the Philippines. Their influence and status extended across the physical and political divide between China and the Philippines, from the villages of southern China to the streets of Manila, making them a truly transnational elite. Control of community institutions and especially migration networks accounts for the cohesiveness of Manila’s Chinese enclave, argues Wilson, and the most successful members of the elite self-consciously chose to identify themselves and their protégés as Chinese.
Author : Anna Belogurova
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 26,54 MB
Release : 2019-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 110847165X
A ground-breaking analysis of how the Malayan Communist Party helped forge a Malayan national identity, while promoting Chinese nationalism.
Author : Sarah Steinbock-Pratt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 29,2 MB
Release : 2019-05-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 1108473121
Examines the contested process of colonial education in the Philippines in the aftermath of the Spanish-American War.
Author : Leo Suryadinata
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 15,56 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9813055502
More than 80 per cent of the Chinese outside China live in Southeast Asia and many of them have been integrated into the local societies. However, the resurgence of China and ethnic Chinese investment in their ancestral land have caused concern among some non-Chinese Southeast Asian elites. They have begun to question the position and identity of the Chinese population in their countries. Ethnic Chinese as Southeast Asians addresses these ethnic Chinese issues, as well as ethnic Chinese relations with China and with indigenous groups in the region. Written by leading scholars in Southeast Asia, including both ethnic Chinese and non-Chinese, the volume also explores the position of the ethnic Chinese in contemporary as well as the future Southeast Asia, providing readers with a most up-to-date and comprehensive study on the subject.