..., Propagandists, and Ilustrados: Filipino Scholarship and the End of Spanish Colonialism . By Megan C. Thomas . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2012 . 288 pp. ISBN: 9780816671908 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2016  2016 In Philippine historiography, two...

...Claude A. Buss The Hispanization of the Philippines, Spanish Aims and Filipino Responses 1500–1700 . By John Leddy Phelan . Madison : University of Wisconsin Press , 1959 . xi, 218 . Notes, Bibliographical Essay, Index. $4.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1959...

...Paul Van Dyke How Taiwan Became Chinese: Dutch, Spanish, and Han Colonization in the Seventeenth Century . By Tonio Andrade . New York : Columbia University Press , 2007 . 1407 pp. $60.00 (cloth). Also available online at http://www.gutenberg-e.org . Copyright © The Association...

...Ruth de Llobet Conquest and Pestilence in the Early Spanish Philippines . By Linda A. Newson . Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press , 2009 . x, 420 pp. $ 56.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 2011 There are complex and unique aspects...

...Albert S. Bacdayan Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1976 1976 The Discovery of the Igorots: Spanish Contacts with the Pagans of Northern Luzon . by William Henry Scott . Quezon City : New Day Publishers , 1974 . xiii, 370 pp. Bibliography, Index. $9.25 (dist...

...John A. Larkin The Philippines: History, Geography, Customs, Agriculture, Industry, and Commerce of the Spanish Colonies in Oceania . By Jean Mallat . Translated by Pura Santillan-Castrance . Manila : National Historical Commission , 1983 . (French original published in 1846.) xiv, 528...

...John A. Larkin A History of the Philippines: From the Spanish Colonization to the Second World War . By Renato Constantino with Letizia R. Constantino . New York : Monthly Review Press , 1975 . xii , 459 pp. Notes, Index. $21.50 Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...Jean-Paul Dumont Contracting Colonialism: Translation and Christian Conversion in Tagalog Society Under Spanish Rule . By Vicente L. Rafael . Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 1988 . xiv, 230 pp. $28.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Fay-Cooper Cole Abstract The great island of Mindanao—second in size of the Philippine group—is still but little known to the average American and Filipino. Many years of struggle between the Spanish and the followers of Islam made the Christianized people painfully aware of the Moro in the south...

... apparent, despite three centuries of indoctrination in Spanish customs and traditions and many centuries more of Arabic and Hindu influences. Indonesian culture survivals are, however, everywhere manifest in their daily life, beliefs, thoughts and actions. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

... by the Spanish barbers in the capital. The latter protested against the “excesses” and “inconveniences” to the “Republic” resulting from the practises of Chinese barbers. The viceroy passed along the complaint and asked for the advice of the city government. CHINESE IN MEXICO CITY IN 1635 HOMER H. DUBS...

... Annam for the asking, Gialong protected the French and Spanish missionaries during his reign and tried to give the French some trade advantages; but his successors, Ming Mang (1820–41), Thieu-Tri (1841–47), and Tuduc (1847–83), persecuted the missionaries and closed the country to European trade...

...Daniel F. Doeppers Abstract Cities and towns first developed in the Philippines as a product of Spanish rule and Roman Catholic mission activity. In this context a new three tiered hierarchy of settlements was established above the preexisting village level. Elements of social and spatial...

... with the importation of mares and Stallions from Spain” (Raza de Caballeria de Filipinas 1883). The debate over the colonial government's attempt to improve equine bloodlines through a selected breeding program with Arab stallions in the 1880s reveals much about changing Spanish attitudes toward nature in tropical...

... The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2015  2015 Understanding the complexity of interethnic relations in the southern Philippines has long been hampered by competing narratives of indigenous ethnolinguistic groups' resistance to Spanish colonization. Perhaps the most powerful narrative is the one...

... contribution to a budding area of study, especially in the Spanish language. Although large audiences would be interested in migration studies that include Spanish-speaking populations and allow the exploration of multiculturalism and transculturality in Japan, as well as social research on Japan published...

..., the original Spanish, and Tagalog, the Philippine national language. It is hoped that in subsequent years the Commission will be able to undertake the translation and publication of Rizal's complete works in seven additional Filipino dialects, namely Ilocano, Pampango, Hiligaynon, Pangasinan, Bicol, Samar...

... going to the aid of Pahang in a war with Johore.8 In the sixteen thirties Brunei and Sulu people attacked Spanish settlements in the Philippines. The Spaniards, seeking revenge, sacked and burned Brunei in 1645, and from the middle of the seventeenth century Brunei declined steadily. By the nineteenth...

... a well-focused introductory essay discussing Ribadeneira's place in the historiography of Spanish penetration into the Far East. The Spanish text does include the notes of the Bibhoteca Espaiia Misionera edition, but nothing new in scholarly apparatus is added. . First published in Barcelona in 1601...

... of Spanish colonialism in the Philippines, the linguist, physician, and engineer Jose Rizal grew up in a wealthy ilustrado (so-called "enlightened") family that suffered at the hands of land-grabbing Spanish friars (priests). The experience sensitized the aristocratic Rizal to the plight of his coFilipinos...