China and AsiaPub Date : 2023-08-01DOI: 10.1163/2589465x-05010010
Thomas P. Barrett
{"title":"Remaking the Chinese Empire: Manchu-Korean Relations, 1616-1911, written by Yuanchong Wang","authors":"Thomas P. Barrett","doi":"10.1163/2589465x-05010010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/2589465x-05010010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":193998,"journal":{"name":"China and Asia","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123047136","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
China and AsiaPub Date : 2023-01-05DOI: 10.1163/2589465x-04020008
Lou Zhixuan
{"title":"Ong Soon Keong. Coming Home to a Foreign Country: Xiamen and Returned Overseas Chinese, 1843–1938","authors":"Lou Zhixuan","doi":"10.1163/2589465x-04020008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/2589465x-04020008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":193998,"journal":{"name":"China and Asia","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122108310","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
China and AsiaPub Date : 2023-01-05DOI: 10.1163/2589465x-04020004
D. P. G. Ramos
{"title":"The Challenges to Prohibition: Opium Law, Opium Smuggling, and Chinese in the Philippines, 1910–1935","authors":"D. P. G. Ramos","doi":"10.1163/2589465x-04020004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/2589465x-04020004","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Opium was one of the issues that had to be resolved by the Americans upon their colonization of the Philippines. The debate on the potentialities of opium dates back to the Spanish colonial period, when the colonial government framed the opium issue as both economic and moral in nature. In the end, the economic potentialities of opium outweighed its moral repercussions because the Spanish colonial government allowed its regulated use among the Chinese. In contrast, the American officials in Manila crafted a progressive prohibitionist policy based on the recommendation of the investigative Opium Committee in 1905. In terms of opium in the Philippines, the majority of research has focused on the American policies on opium and their international consequences. This study focuses on the aftermath and challenges of the American prohibitionist policy from 1910 to 1935, particularly as they related to smuggling. Using archival documents such as annual reports from the governor-general of the Philippines and other government records, the paper aims to demonstrate how and in what ways opium was smuggled in the Philippines and to analyze the various motivations, reasons, and methods used by smugglers. Furthermore, the paper explores the involvement of the Chinese in various notable opium-related cases in the Philippines. I also argue that an increase in the smuggling of opium was an unwanted aftermath of the American prohibitionist policy. The present study hopes to contribute to the growing body of literature on narcotics, drug policies, and empire building.","PeriodicalId":193998,"journal":{"name":"China and Asia","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130858878","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
China and AsiaPub Date : 2023-01-05DOI: 10.1163/2589465x-04020002
Tina S. Clemente
{"title":"How the Chinese in the Spanish Philippines Negotiated Commercial Boundaries in the Colonial Economy","authors":"Tina S. Clemente","doi":"10.1163/2589465x-04020002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/2589465x-04020002","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000While various dimensions of Chinese commercial achievement have gained longstanding attention in the literature, this article argues for the reconsideration of Chinese commercial performance in the Spanish Philippines based on the confluence of various factors, including the altered conditions of economic engagement in the islands, the character of political economy during the colonial period, and the gaps in provisioning the colony. Against the backdrop of the socio-political and economic dynamics of the Spanish empire, I analyze narratives that emanate from the interests of the colonial authorities, the clergy, and the Chinese traders themselves. I utilize sixteenth-to-eighteenth-century historical accounts and consider these narratives as frames of various motivations by the different actors. I examine these representations and underscore how the Chinese negotiated various parameters set against them that limited their access to commercial opportunities and settlement.","PeriodicalId":193998,"journal":{"name":"China and Asia","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127071484","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
China and AsiaPub Date : 2023-01-05DOI: 10.1163/2589465x-04020001
J. A. Galang
{"title":"China and Asia: A Journal in Historical Studies: Special Issue on the Chinese in Philippine History","authors":"J. A. Galang","doi":"10.1163/2589465x-04020001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/2589465x-04020001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":193998,"journal":{"name":"China and Asia","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125342395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
China and AsiaPub Date : 2023-01-05DOI: 10.1163/2589465x-04020005
Michael Anthony R. Ngo
{"title":"Resilience and Survival in the Twentieth Century of a Chinese School in Iligan City, Philippines","authors":"Michael Anthony R. Ngo","doi":"10.1163/2589465x-04020005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/2589465x-04020005","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This study explores the causal elements of resiliency and continuity in a Chinese school located on the southern island of the Philippines, Mindanao. Established by the Huaren community in Iligan City in the 1930s, the changing political, economic, and socio-cultural landscape of the country over the years since 1948 has brought about challenges and changes to the school. The presence of an “alien” minority whose: (1) commercial endeavors were perceived to be gaining control of the country’s economy, (2) strong cultural ties from their country of origin creates a degree of social separateness from the native population, and (3) political loyalty was questioned (as exemplified during the “Red Scare” Syndrome) were among the concerns that coincided with the resurgence of Filipino nationalism, particularly in the 1950s and 1960s. The passage of “nationalization” laws placed restrictions and curtailments on foreign control in the country, and the Chinese school in Iligan was not exempted from the measures instituted by the Philippine government. But despite such measures, the school has continued to serve its purpose as an academic institution that not only educates young minds with basic educational training but also contributes to the preservation of the Chinese language and culture in the community. It remains and continues to serve the community as the only foreign-language school in the city.","PeriodicalId":193998,"journal":{"name":"China and Asia","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130698295","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
China and AsiaPub Date : 2023-01-05DOI: 10.1163/2589465x-04020007
Ling-Wei Kung
{"title":"Manuel Perez-Garcia. Global History with Chinese Characteristics: Autocratic States along the Silk Road in the Decline of the Spanish and Qing Empires 1680–1796","authors":"Ling-Wei Kung","doi":"10.1163/2589465x-04020007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/2589465x-04020007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":193998,"journal":{"name":"China and Asia","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128700905","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
China and AsiaPub Date : 2023-01-05DOI: 10.1163/2589465x-04020003
Randy M. Madrid
{"title":"The Provincial Chinese and the Progress of Iloilo Textile in Nineteenth-Century Philippines","authors":"Randy M. Madrid","doi":"10.1163/2589465x-04020003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/2589465x-04020003","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This paper examines the role of provincial Chinese in the progress of Iloilo textile in nineteenth century Philippines. It argues that the provincial Chinese played a pivotal role in Iloilo’s urban morphogenesis, which is contrary to the prevailing view that Iloilo’s progress has been spurred only by Western global enterprise, especially with the emergence of the sugar trade primarily operated by the British. The facets of Iloilo’s pre-colonial and colonial trade, specifically the textile business run by the Chinese, served as tour de force that brought about internal transformations in the local economy prior to European trade expansions in the overseas colonies in the second half of the nineteenth century. This study falls under the domain of urban history but with special emphasis on the interplay of material culture with that of the political economy of port cities in Asia during the nineteenth century. Its research framework has been drawn from advocates of microhistory. The framework employs privileging first-hand accounts and primary sources to explore historical experiences of a particular sector of the society (provincial Chinese), tracking clues through multiple sources to unearth hidden connections (provincial Chinese and urban progress), reconstructing webs of social networks (provincial Chinese with Ilonggos, Spaniards and other Europeans), and scaling analysis to highlight specific historical contexts or perspectives provincial Chinese and the textile trade). Many of the information in the study has been gathered through extensive library and archival research, especially nineteenth century records and documents of Iloilo Chinese found in the National Archives of the Philippines (nap) and other libraries and archives in the country. Data analysis has been undertaken through clustered themes and sub-themes that revolved around textile trade and the participation of provincial Chinese on it.","PeriodicalId":193998,"journal":{"name":"China and Asia","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124408615","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
China and AsiaPub Date : 2023-01-05DOI: 10.1163/2589465x-04020006
Kerby C. Alvarez
{"title":"A Cultural Minority’s Disaster Survival Experience: The August 1968 Luzon Earthquake, the Ruby Tower Tragedy, and the Chinese in Manila","authors":"Kerby C. Alvarez","doi":"10.1163/2589465x-04020006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/2589465x-04020006","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This paper narrates a history of the August 2, 1968 Luzon earthquake that severely hit the capital city of Manila in the Philippines. The central site of this earthquake disaster was the collapse of a premiere, high-rise residential building in downtown Manila, the Ruby Tower Apartments. This tragedy reflects the projection of nationalism in terms of collective disaster response, and the Philippines’ complicated dealings with a specific segment of the population. The Ruby Tower tragedy was an emblematic representation of the country’s disaster response capacities and Filipino society’s perception and treatment of the Chinese and Filipino Chinese residents in Manila. Using newspapers, magazine articles, and scientific reports about the earthquake, this study aims to present a microhistory of a cultural minority in Manila, specifically on how the sordid story of earthquake disaster survival projects a poignant picture of ethnic dynamics and disaster politics in the country in the 1960s.","PeriodicalId":193998,"journal":{"name":"China and Asia","volume":"82 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124414282","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
China and AsiaPub Date : 2022-07-20DOI: 10.1163/2589465x-04010006
Ylber Marku
{"title":"Albania, China, and the Sino-Vietnamese Conflict of 1979","authors":"Ylber Marku","doi":"10.1163/2589465x-04010006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/2589465x-04010006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":193998,"journal":{"name":"China and Asia","volume":"102 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126899285","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}