Ambition and Identity : : Chinese Merchant Elites in Colonial Manila, 1880-1916 /

Ambition and Identity : : Chinese Merchant Elites in Colonial Manila, 1880-1916 / / Andrew R. Wilson.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
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Wilson, Andrew R.,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2004]
©2004
Year of Publication:2004
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.) :; illus., maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Origins and Evolution of the Manila-Chinese Community, 1571-1898
  • 2. Patterns of Chinese Elite Dominance in Spanish Manila
  • 3. China and the Philippines, 1571-1889
  • 4. Carlos Palanca Chen Qianshan
  • 5. Institutional Change in the Manila-Chinese Community, 1899-1916
  • 6. Benevolent Merchants or Malevolent Highbinders?
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Select Glossary of Chinese Terms and Names
  • Select Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author

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