Microhistory and Microcosm: Chinese Migrants, Spanish Empire, and Globalization in Early Modern Manila

Gebhardt, Jonathan

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“…Although Magellan reached the Philippines in March of 1521, full-scale colonization commenced with the arrival of Miguel L opez de Legazpi from Mexico in the archipelago in 1565 and the founding of Cebu City. He later founded Manila in 1571, the capital of the Spanish East Indies (Francia, 2014;Morga, Antonio de, Rizal, José, National Historical Institute (Philippines), 1990). The economic aspects of the trade that flourished over 300 years between the port of Acapulco and Manila have been well studied by several including Flynn and Giraldez (1996).…”

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Building virtual collection and Spanish colonial imprints of the Philippines

Pendse

2020

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Purpose The access to the rare originals of the early Spanish colonial imprints of the Philippines remains problematic. The reference librarians often are restricted to directing the students and scholars to the secondary resources that are available both in print and as a part of the digital assets within the North American academic libraries. This paper aims to focus on the select primary source editions including select Spanish language colonial imprints that are available electronically on the Web along the Open Access. These Web-based resources serve as the reference tools for the early history of the Philippines and Southeast Asia. As many of these publications are rare and extremely expensive for most libraries, the Open Access resources serve as an aid to building a virtual collection of these items. Design/methodology/approach The author had to create a data set of the early imprints of the Spanish Philippines using several bibliographic resources. The data set will be submitted as an Appendix for this research paper. The author did both qualitative and quantitative analysis of the data set along with the voyant-based digital humanities approach for topic modeling. Findings The goals of this paper were to not only survey the early Spanish printing of the Philippines but also provide the reader with a somewhat complete picture of how the printing began in the Spanish Philippines, what kind of the first books were printed and how one can access them given their rarity and fragility. The collection building paradigms are undergoing significant shifts, and the focus of many academic libraries is shifting toward providing access to these items. As these items high-value low-use items continue to be part of the Special Collections, the access to these is problematic. The virtual collections thus serve as a viable alternative that enables further research and access. While the creators of these works are long gone, the legacy of the Spanish colonial domination, printing and the religious orders in the Philippines remain alive through these works. Research limitations/implications As this is an introductory paper, the author focused on the critical editions rather than providing a comprehensive bibliographic landscape of the presses that produced these editions. He also did not take into consideration many pamphlets that were published in the same period. He also did not consider the Chinese language publications of the Islands. The Chinese had been block printing since medieval times (Little, 1996). In the context of the Spanish Philippines, the Chinese migration and trade have been studied in detail by Chia (2006), Bjork (1998) and Gebhardt (2017). The scope of this paper also was centered toward building a virtual collection of these rare books. Practical implications Rare books are often expensive and out-of-reach for many libraries; the virtual collection of the same along the Open Access model represents an alternative to collect and curate these collections. The stewardship of these collections also acquires a new meaning in the digital milieu. Social implications This research paper will allow scholars to see past the analog editions and help them focus on curating a virtual collection. The questions of electronic access are often ignored when it comes to visiting and using them in a controlled environment of the reading room in the Special Collections. The author argues that one way to enable access to these rare and expensive books is to provide access to their digital counterparts. These digital/virtual surrogates of the originals will facilitate further research. Originality/value The author could not find similar research on the publications of the early Spanish colony of the Philippines.

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Building virtual collection and Spanish colonial imprints of the Philippines

Pendse

2020

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Eloquence and ethnohistory: indigenous loyalty and the making of a Tagalogletrado

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Leibsohn

2018

Colonial Latin American Review

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Translating Surgery and Alchemy between Seventeenth-Century Europe and Siam

Alberts¹

2022

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René Charbonneau (1643-72) traveled to Siam (modern-day Thailand) in 1676 as a lay auxiliary to a band of French missionary priests. It was intended that he would practice his skills as a surgeon to treat missionaries and the indigent poor in the mission hospital established in Ayutthaya. An examination of the few letters that survive in his hand reveal fascinating insights into some of the treatments he used.Details emerge which suggest how far healers like Charbonneau were transformed as they moved into new contexts: how they were able to experiment with new techniques and cures, and how they were often required to reconceptualize their approaches for new audiences. This article explores Charbonneau's life and career in seventeenth-century Ayutthaya to reassess the "foreign" healers in the history of Thai medicine, and to explore the methodological complexities of reconstructing the medical world of Ayutthaya.In 1730 an ecumenical funeral was held in Ayutthaya, the royal capital of Siam (modern-day Thailand). Present were representatives of various Catholic communities -Portuguese, French, Vietnamese, Spanish, and Siamesethe Protestant head (Opperhoofd) of the Dutch factory and his assistant, and various "people of other religions". 1 The man being laid to rest was René Charbonneau (c. 1646-1730), a "venerable elderly gentleman" of eighty-four, whose passing was "regretted by all the Christians and even the pagans". 2 Charbonneau was born in Les Herbiers, Poitou, France, the son of a tenant farmer. 3 By the time of his death he had lived in Siam for over fifty years. Fluent in Thai and knowledgeable about the country, his advice was sought by locals and by visitors. 4 He was probably known to the Siamese by the noble title ok phraya (ออกพระยา), and addressed as chaokuhn (เจ้ าคุ ณ, "lord"): honors granted by the former king, Phra

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Microhistory and Microcosm: Chinese Migrants, Spanish Empire, and Globalization in Early Modern Manila

Cited by 5 publications

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Building virtual collection and Spanish colonial imprints of the Philippines

Building virtual collection and Spanish colonial imprints of the Philippines

Eloquence and ethnohistory: indigenous loyalty and the making of a Tagalogletrado

Translating Surgery and Alchemy between Seventeenth-Century Europe and Siam

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