Sinifying New Spain

Cathay's Influence on Colonial Mexico via the Nao de China

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6153302
AutoresEdward R Slack (autor correspondente)
Ano2009
Volume5
Fascículo1
Páginas5-27
Data de publicação2009-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Chinese Overseas (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1793-0391 • E-ISSN: 1793-2548
EditoraBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/179325409x434487
OpenAlexW2070107173
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas14

The study of Asian migration to colonial Mexico via the nao de China — especially by Chinese and mestizos living in the Philippines — has been languishing in academic oblivion. This article reveals how transpacific relations between Manila and Acapulco profoundly affected the social, economic, religious, and political spheres of activity in New Spain. Aside from the challenges encountered by chinos acclimating to a Castilian race-based hierarchy, it also probes the reasons behind widespread social amnesia in the mid-to-late 18th century with respect to Mexico's Oriental heritage. Furthermore, this article contests accepted scholarly definitions of mestizaje (mixed-race heritage) that emphasize a purely Atlantic pedigree. Reconstructing the process of sinification in colonial Mexico is imperative to “reorienting” its history and chronologically repositioning studies on the Chinese diaspora in the Americas

Ancient history · Archaeology · Asian studies · Aside · China · Colonialism · Diaspora · Economic history · Empire · Ethnology · Geography · Hierarchy · Historical anthropology · Political science · Politics · Race (biology · Sociology · Anthropology · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Gender Studies · History · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Philippine History and Culture