https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_families_in_the_Philippines I wonder if all the Chinese families changed their names to Spanish to appear more assimilated. It is a great undertaking to do that, it must have been for commercial reasons. The Spanish really ruled the roost. If anyone knows a good book about this period in the Philippines, I would love to read that. I also wonder if there were triads back then as they started in the 17th century..
You have to watch your spacing when writing that! I'm following it on an app - KAMI.PH - that I found. Lots of news from the Phils with plenty of it featuring Duterte. A real Box 'o' Frogs that one.
I can recommend quite a few, but for what it is worth the only foreign member of the Association of Filipino Historians is Bob Couttie, who has of course written on the subject himself. I'll ask him to drop in. I would recommend anything by Ambeth Ocampo and by Vincente Rafael.
Roces, Alfredo R., ed. Filipino Heritage: The Making of a Nation. 10 vols. Manila, Philippines: Lahang Pilipino, 1977. A very detailed and nationalistic ten-volume work that encompasses the long arc of history from pre-Hispanic times through the Marcos era. The strengths of this encyclopedic approach are the numerous articles written by renowned scholars and an amazing variety of illustrations that include rare documents, paintings, drawings, and maps.
http://www.amazon.com/Readings-Philippine-History-Horacio-Costa/dp/B000LCPWZK A compilation of source documents translated into English; great fun to dip into.
Bob Couttie's own contributions are "Hang the Dogs", a detailed investigation of the massacre at Balangiga during the Philippine-American War, and "Chew the Bones", a light hearted compilation of oddities from Filipino history.
Actually, this Wikipedia entry is remarkably good: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Philippines_(1521–1898)
No; I just thought that we were discussing the Spanish colonial era! The usual recommendation for the American colonial era is of course Sterling Segrave's "In our image". And an excellent book on the Marcos years is "America's Boy" by the English writer James Hamilton Paterson. This was recommended to me by F Sionil Jose, which I take to be a strong recommendation, and I myself recommend F Sionil Jose's fictional account of the century from the 1870's to the 1970's in his Rosales Novels, a five volume saga following an Ilocano family.
I am interested in the Chinese migration and integration to and in the Philippines. I am surprised that there is so little information on Wiki, especially as Chinese Filipinos have so much power now.
Ahhh, very delicate subject. I can only pass on what I have been told, which is as follows, and I have named my informants where can remember who told me what: The islands of Luzon, the Visayas and Mindanao were within the ambit of Chinese seaborne trade before the Spanish arrived. Indeed, many of the datus were in the habit of paying tribute to the Emperor, as this was a pre-condition of trading with China. One datu actually died on a tribute mission and his family were granted land for his grave and the right for some of their servants to reside in China in order to tend his grave (Bob Couttie). The cobble stones in Intramuros were the ballast stones of Chinese junks (Freddie Clemo) The Spanish conducted regular pogroms against the Chinese (Freddie Clemo) and banned them from settling in the Philippines (Bob Couttie). Most Chinese settlers came from Fukien, which has long been famous for exporting people, and to this day the language usually spoken amongst Chinese Filipinos is Hokkien (Xiamenhwa). President Aquino is fluent in it and addressed the Chinese Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines in that language, including telling jokes and telling them to pay more tax. (Philippine Inquirer). Because of the ban on settlement Chinese immigrants married Filipinas and Hispanicised their surnames. Marcos passed a decree law which allowed the Chinese to acquire Filipino citizenship. As first drafted, this law contained a loophole which allowed Freddie, who was as British as they come and resembled John Mills, and two of his friends, to acquire Filipino citizenship.
Excellent article. Thanks. Note this bit: Hispanicized Surnames Chinese Filipinos, as well as Chinese mestizos who trace their roots back to Chinese immigrants to the Philippines during the Spanish Colonial Period, usually have multiple syllable Chinese surnames such as Chuacuco, Chuatoco, Ciacho (from Sia), Cojuangco, Cuyegkeng, Dioquino, Dytoc, Dy-Cok, Dysangco, Dytioco, Gueco, Gokongwei, Gundayao, Kimpo/Quimpo, King/Quing, Landicho, Lanting, Limcuando, Ongpin, Pempengco, Quebengco, Siopongco, Sycip, Tambengco, Tambunting, Tanbonliong, Tantoco, Tiongson, Tungol, Yuchengco, Tanciangco, Yuipco, Yupangco, Licauco, Limcaco, Ongpauco, Tancangco, Tanchanco, Teehankee, Uytengsu, and Yaptinchay among such others. These were originally full Chinese names which were transliterated into Spanish and adopted as surnames.[45] There are also multiple syllable Chinese surnames that are Spanish transliterations of Hokkien words. Surnames like Tuazon (Eldest Grandson, 大孫), Dizon (Second Grandson, 二孫), Samson (Third Grandson, 三孫), Singson (Fourth Grandson, 四孫), Gozon (Fifth Grandson, 五孫), Lacson (Sixth Grandson, 六孫) are examples of transliterations of designations that use the Hokkien suffix -son (孫) used as surnames for some Chinese Filipinos who trace their ancestry from Chinese immigrants to the Philippines during the Spanish Colonial Period. It should be noted as well that "Son/Sun" (孫) is a surname listed in the classic Chinese text Hundred Family Surnames, perhaps shedding light on the Hokkien suffix -son used here as a surname alongside some sort of accompanying enumeration scheme.
Different bit of Philippines history: http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail...defense-cannon-mounted-news-footage/511858983
