Keynote Panel:
The Chinese Mestizos of Cebu City (1750-1900)
Michael Cullinane
Respondents: Jely Galang, Resil Mojares
PANEL 1: MERCHANTS, LABORERS, PIONEER SETTLERS: CHINESE AND CHINESE MESTIZOS IN THE PHILIPPINE PROVINCES DURING THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES
Convenor:: Jely Galang, Department of History, University of the Philippines-Diliman
The Colonial Policies Concerning Chinese Mestizo Landholdings in Negros in the 19th century
Randy Madrid
Division of Professional Education, University of the Philippines Visayas
Locating Places of Origin and Points of Destination of Chinese Migrants to Misamis Province in the Nineteenth Century
Rhina A. Boncocan
Department of Social Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, University of the Philippines Los Baños
Colonizing the Frontier: Chinese in the Late-Nineteenth Century Palawan
Jely Galang
Department of History, University of the Philippines-Diliman
History and Archaeology of Parian in Manila
Victor Estrella, Lee Anthony Neri, Patrick John Mansujeto
Philippine Normal University, University of the Philippines Diliman
PANEL 2: CHINESE IN REGIONAL SOCIOECONOMIC LIFE 1
New Digital Sources on Chinese History from late 20th Century Davao City
Johnny Bassett
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Transactions, Marriages, Births, and Deaths: The Chinese Presence in Bicol’s Socioeconomic Life from the Late 1800s to the Early 1900s
Marco Lagman and Tina Clemente
Central Bicol State University of Agriculture - Pili Campus and University of the Philippines - Diliman
The Socioeconomic Legacy of the Chinese Mestizo of Cebu City, 1860-1900
Moira Iradel
University of Santo Tomas
PANEL 3: CHINESE IN REGIONAL SOCIOECONOMIC LIFE 2
Ethnicity and the labors of empire: The Chinese Exclusion Act and Town-building in Benguet, 1900 – 1909
Jeraiah Gray
University of the Philippines Baguio
El Comercio del Chinos: The Chinese Commercial Activities in Northern Pampanga and Southern Tarlac (1891-1898)
Louie Aldrin L. Bartolo
University of the Philippines Baguio / Santa Cruz Elementary School
Socio-Economic Relationship of Chinese and Lagunenses during the 19th century
Merlisa Parcon-Ligero
University of the Philippines Baguio
Cultivating “Green” Gold: The Role of Migrant Chinese in the Birth of Benguet’s Commercial Vegetable Industry in the American Period
João Paulo D. Reginaldo
University of the Philippines Baguio
PANEL 4: COMMUNITY BUILDING IN ILOILO AND CEBU
Was there a Chinatown in American-Era Cebu?
Jose Eleazar Bersales
University of San Carlos
Chinese in Iloilo
Ericah Villacarlos, Christian Erick C. Baguio, John Rey Mar A. Flores
West Visayas State University
The Roman Catholic Church and the Filipino-Chinese Community in Iloilo
Mai Dolosielle Liao
Independent Scholar
Common Soul, Uncommon Ground: The Golden Jubilee of Filipinization of Catholic Chinese Schools Across the Philippines
Peter Martin Gomez
Independent Scholar
PANEL 5: CHINESE IN NORTHERN MINDANAO
A Preliminary Study on Chinese Immigration, Activities, and Tribulations in Northern Mindanao from 1890s-1940s
Jay Rome O. de los Santos, Rey Luis A. Montesclaros, Celyn J. Teatro
Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology
Bridging Identities: LFCCCI and the Social and Cultural Integration of Ethnic Chinese in Iligan City, Mindanao
Michael Anthony Ngo
Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology
Chinese Ascendancy in an Urban Center of Iligan, 1950-2023
Cecilia B Tangian
Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology
PANEL 6: HISTORICAL AND HISTORIOGRAPHICAL APPROACHES TO CHINESE IDENTITY AND REPRESENTATION
Comparative Analysis of the Development of Wushu and Arnis in the Philippines
Micah Jeiel Perez
University of the Philippines-Diliman
Textual Disparities and Historical Misconceptions: The Chinese Community as Discussed in Selected Grade 5 and 6 Textbooks
Aaron F. Viernes et al
University of the Philippines-Diliman
Tsinoy sa Museo: Representations of Chinese in Philippine History Museums
Dondy Pepito Ramos II
Australian Catholic University
PANEL 7: PHILIPPINE COLONIAL EXPERIENCES, SINOPHOBIA AND THE STATUS OF PHILIPPINES-CHINA RELATIONS
A Historical Analysis of the Evolving Terrain for Philippine Policy on China: From the Neo-Realism of Diosdado Macapagal to the Pragmatism of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
Tyrone Jann Nepomuceno
University of Santo Tomas
Anti-Chinese laws and government policies that existed in the Philippines during the American colonial era
Severo Madrona, Jr
Ateneo de Manila University
PANEL 8: HOKKIEN ACROSS TIME AND SPACE: LANGUAGE AND IDENTITY IN THE PHILIPPINES FROM EARLY MANILA HOKKIEN TO LÁNNANG-UÈ (1600s-2023)
Early Manila Hokkien: Sources, speakers, and unsolved questions
Henning Klöter
Boston University
From “Sy Quiegnh” to Don Vicente Roberto Sy-Quia: A US Colonial Legal History of Philippine Hokkien Names
Jilene Adelina Chan Chua
Boston University
Negotiating Chinese-ness in the Philippines through language: Lánnang-uè, Philippine Hokkien, and linguistic variation
Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzles
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
PANEL 9: REGULATION AND EVASION: POLICING THE CHINESE IN NINETEENTH TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY PHILIPPINES
Commentator: Patricio Abinales, University of Hawaii–Manoa
Smuggling and US Colonial Distress in the Southern Philippines, 1910-1938
Jilene Adelina Chan Chua
Boston University
The Laborer, the Merchant, and the Child: Contesting Identities under the Chinese Exclusion Laws in the Philippines
Richard T. Chu
University of Massachusetts - Amherst
House Inspections, Colonial Police and the Chinese in the Philippines, 1871-1898
Jely A. Galang
University of the Philippines-Diliman
PANEL 10: FAMILY AND IDENTITY FORMATION
From Qingmeng To Borongan: The Ty Families Of Eastern Visayas, Philippines
Eduardo de la Cruz
Kaisa Para Sa Kaunlaran
The Philippine Muslim Five-Surname Association of Lineages and Its Cultural Exchange with Ancestral Homelands in China and Taiwan
Oded Abt
Department of East Asian Studies, Tel Hai College, Israel
The Future is in the Past: An exploration of the past, present, and future of “The Great Wall” among third generation Filipino-Chinese Adults
Nea Lourdes Cipriano
De La Salle University
The State of Chinese Burials and Cemeteries as Tangible Heritage in the Province of Pampanga
Charlene Manese
History Department, University of Santo Tomas
