Jay-Rald M.

Sinampaga BSE II-A

A HISTORY OF

CHINESE NESTIZO IN THE PHILIPPINES

1571

-Soon after the Spaniards founded the city of Manila

-Chinese became indispensable to the needs of capital

1584

-Binondo community was founded this provide the rationale behind the creation of special
Chinese communities

1603

-Many Chinese fled to Pampanga and intermarried with local women

1687

-Chinese Guild was set up, the mestizo descendants as well as Chinese residents were
enrolled in the same Gremio

-In the same year, the mestizo and Chinese formally organized the community of Chinese
and Mestizos in Binondo

1738

-There were 5,000 Chinese mestizos living in Binondo, Chinese mestizo communities
developed. The Jesuits has established a community of Catholic Chinese in the district of
Santa, Cruz which in turn produced its own mestizo community
 1741-1850

-The Chinese mestizo rose to prominence between 1741 and 1898, primarily as a landholder and
a middle man wholesaler of local produce and foreign imports although there were also mestizos
in the profession

-The rise of mestizos implies the social change during the Spanish period

-The mestizos became the leading element in Binondo, they broke away from the Chinese, forming their
own Cranuo de Mestizos Binondo

The Chinese mestizos had recognized a distinct element in Philippine society, sufficiently numerous to be
organized and classified separately.

1810

-There were 121,261 Chinese mestizos in an Indio population of 2, 395,676.

1840

-Sinebaldo de Mas writing, remarks on the rise of wealth, rather than lineage considerations, as
the standard of social status

1850-1898

-For the mestizo the last half of the nineteenth century was a period of occupational
rearrangement and social Filipinization

19th Century

-There were about millions of mestizos, with some 46, 000 living in Manila. Prominent mestizo
families despite the inroads of the Chinese, were noted for their wealth and the major component
of a Filipino elite

-As the export economy grew and foreign contact increased, the mestizos and other members of
this Filipino elite, known collectively as ilustrados, obtained higher education entered professions
such as law or medicine, and were particularly receptive to the liberal and democratic ideas that
were beginning to reach the Philippines