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    a The Philippine Chinese before 1850 Before 1750 Long before 1850 the Chinese had been significa involved inthe sconomic and soca afus ofthe Philipines, Direc contact been Chia andthe Phiippines existed from at leat che Sang pied (960 1279) By Ming ues (1368-1654) che sega ch, oF esern| route ofthe Chines junk wading sem, had been exablthe, pasing throu the western ide of the Philippine Archipelago ennoute fom South China co Sula Bornco, and the Molaceas. Thowgh she junk ‘cade sve pont in the Silipines enjoyed regular commercial and ulus eotacts with the Chine! Pasenger om the junks, whether T:Thsiao compen sain of ue ening sl Si Pine ash sand Ching ng Say of Race we Pegi «Chae iter saan ine oe Syme Pg Ss Som Hoe te frun (999, 18 cei hee ear apne Seca aes erences sien iey ease eee ie i de eden sea os Hanjin Sai 7 094) eer aleand Beh a one ee San eee ett See an etecuieerarumrmi a SS eet acer eater Semehie mperbran emer various parts of she Philippine, aleve n+ temporary bss. Bur nothing i own abou Such set cir ost soc ring center forthe raw products of neighboring re 1 Chinese what snd lodging quartet? In the Mama ae, the Sprit Eonqueors of 1570 found s small stlement of ab Bur no other information is avilable about these etements txiteace of other Chines colon The aval of the Spanish congueros in tke Philippises inthe 15604 scant new opportunites for the Chinese. In Fukien province tm Chinas southeastern cost, shipowsing merchants irumeditey ce tlzed the potential scanomnc aigniicance of the newy-developing Mania Galleon trade between the Philippines and Mexico, The way is, ws open for Chi to city goods fom Chinato thereto be loaded for maths in Mexco. The Spaniards, unlike oreaguete,soresed no cading sation othe China coast. No hey handle the China Manila cacryng ede in thei own veel ssoads they developed « patern of waiing forthe yearly monsoon winds 1 Bring the Chinese junks to Mans, being silks and other \asty goad fom Chins tobe transthippe to Medco othe Manila talleon”On the gallons zen voyage Mexian silver was brought t Mania, from whence it was takes to Chima by she Chinese jank ead ts in zepavment for the lax goods they had brought. Both zhe (Chinese snd the Manila Spaniards, who acted as middlemen, pred » from this seragerens Shipowning merchants were not the only Chinese who came Piippines, Son other Chinese—m by ccetblised at Manls and othe centers of Spishcesdence visioning of the Spanish se sods ai servi at an open ld for Chinese enterprise. Not oly merchants and artis bur fishermen and market gardener see in the Masila ate and suppled the needs of she Spaniarcs. By 1613, bee chi ovo years afer the founding of Manila as 2 Spanish setdement, the Chine ing tthe archipelago, at be sophisicned| ‘4 The Galen tale OCEAN ~\ ! PACIFIC secemeneeet Wane GALLEON AOtTES ~ CANESE TRADE ROUTES ‘ DISTORICAL PATTERNS population chere was estimated at 20,000—in contrast to perhaps 1.000 Spaniads, Even before that he Chinese had achieved virtual ‘ponopely in the retail sommetcil and industrial fe ofthis element Sd wee moting inthe sae discon inthe otber pars ofthe archi pelago where Spenatde bad exablshed themselves” The essen of Span rule over pats of the archipelago, and the immigncion of Chance to areas where Spaniards were seed Salted in the developmenc,brosdly speaking, of not one but three fonomuc systems in the Philippinen 1 "Western economy,” a “ratve fconomy,”and a “Chinese econoan.” The major interes of che West fn ecomory as speculason in the Marla Gallon rade. Neither the ‘GlitSe wae with Menco nor che Mana wade wt China ivolved rilippine products in any large quantity. The Spaniards of she p 1730 period ete hezefore, uninterested in tach rps prowa on Philippine soi, devoting themselves to rade i foreign ommodiie Thee xpors were Chine ut goods to Meco ard ‘Mesican silver co Ching; sei imports, sir ftom Meaico and staple ta any goods fom China w aie he demands of Palppine Span rd “The native ewonomy was «subsistence one, of most local orients siog and concern, Buti was sec by the Westen economy in ateas neue Spanish seements expel i the Manlaaea wher the oer ‘vnlming enjotiey of Spantards ook ap residence. The Spaniards of ania drew upon the ara suroundiag Manila Bay for eosin. The tie economy in ths aea was ako affeced by the impos of Chinese ovis and Menican ser seaching the asin exchange fs the prov sions ses 0 the Spaniard “ks forthe Chinese economy, besides maritime rading between (China and che Philippines it incuded ara, bot in Spanish ele ‘rents and inthe neaiby native vlages, and the important funeson of ‘porisionzg te Spans. ln thi fancon, the Chinese aed a2 lin Ferween the Were eontmy andthe nate economy, aking Chinese imports co the villages in exchange for loa products for che Spanish tcp Bei oli, De 16,1608, F180, Bah Sas a Chine ao Paro Mai” BR. 722, Ana ee Se el a Ppa ol WE Reson Moa 910) 0 24 a eg "B thonin tc aur (nthe Cgnphal Eapontn of te Pepe Chin). ans “Cink "Hw shi” ge 7-6, 10 Aronia de Mor “Rear of Cones ‘he tpn ne 98° BR 1 8-48 Sau" BR BLM, Rel Dace eT 6 [FHICIPDINE CHINESE SEFOME 1850 Cc? “This plu in economic Hf wat parle by cule puri In arn penctted by the Spunare thee quickly came wo Be culo omnmunivis of Spaniards, diy and Chinese. Formal cial distinc tions benseen and among these cultural groups were built ino the ‘alminisssive seuctare hy the Spaniards “Spaniae,” "ii" and ‘Chines became terms of egal saat. And when in the eighteenth century sable umber of Chinese-indio halts, or mestie?ap- Prue,» lp claeficacion was crated for them to, “This pole of oymaliaed socal dasifeaion oughe not wo be beled simply “dvide-and-rule” Te was, eather, a Spanish application ofthe Roman taditional concept of recognition of cultural difeences within she empis. To ahe Spanacs, a leat i the pre-ninezeenth-

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