Ambition and identity
Subtitle: Chinese merchant elites in colonial Manila, 1880-1916
By: Andrew R. Wilson.
Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Honolulu
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
Subjects: Chinese -- Philippines -- Manila -- History.; Elite (Social sciences) -- Philippines -- Manila -- History.; Manila (Philippines) -- History.
Description: "Ambition and Identity forces us to re-examine the processes of identity formation in the modern era. Manila's Chinese elite manipulated the aspirations and prejudices of colonial rulers and the desires of China's government to satisfy their own ambitions and further the security and prosperity of those under their leadership. Rather than having institutions and ethnic distinctions imposed on them by the colonial regime or by Beijing, or simply replicating strategies from their native-places, they demonstrated a subtle hand in constructing the identities that largely defined what it was to be "Chinese" in colonial Manila."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-294) and index.
Table of contents: title: Origins and evolution of the Manila-Chinese community, 1571-1898; title: Patterns of Chinese elite dominance in Spanish Manila; title: China and the Philippines, 1571-1889; title: Carlos Palanca Chen Qianshan : elite activism in the Manila-Chinese community, 1896-1901; title: Institutional change in the Manila-Chinese community, 1899-1916; title: Benevolent merchants or malevolent highbinders? : the deportation of Agapito Uy Tongco, et al. August 1909.