Pagbabalik-Tanaw sa Masalimuot na Ugnayang Tsino-Español sa Pilipinas at Pag-iimahen sa mga Tsino noong Dantaon 16-18. (Filipino)

Looking Back at the Complicated Chinese-Spanish Relations in the Philippines and Perception to the Chinese during the 16-18^th centuries. (English)

Chinese presence in the Philippine Islands predates the arrival of its Spanish colonizers. Thus, contact between the two racial groups became inevitable during the entire span of three hundred years of colonization. In reading past literature on Chinese in the Philippines during the colonial period, the Chinese-Spanish relations can be described as a complicated duality during the 16^th-18^th centuries. Moreover, this paper mainly focuses on the numerous conflicts between Chinese and Spaniards under three categories, also termed in this paper as the "Chinese problem," namely: (1) the threats and attempts of Philippine invasion by China; (2) the rebellions and massacres of the Chinese; and (3) the policies on Chinese population control in the colony. Through excavating and evaluating these phenomena, this paper proposes instead and supports the reimagined image of Chinese in the Philippines as a dominant, influential, and menacing group compared to its mainstream description of them being a "despised cultural minority" (Abinales & Amorsolo 65). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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