A presentation on the trade between China and the Spanish colonial Philippines in the 16th-18th centuries will be the topic of the first Modern China Lecture Series event at Cal State San Bernardino for the 2016-17 academic year.
“The Butcher, the Baker, and the Carpenter: Chinese in Fujian and the Spanish Philippines, 16th-18th Centuries,” is the title of the talk to be given by Lucille Chia, a professor of history at the University of California, Riverside. The lecture will take place Thursday, Oct. 6, at 2 p.m. in the John M. Pfau Library, room PL-5005.
The lecture is free and open to the public. Parking at CSUSB is $6.
The Chinese who settled permanently or sojourned briefly in the Philippines in the early Spanish colonial period came from Fujian Province in southeast China. Chia will discuss: What was the impact on southern Fujian (Minnan) of the trade with and migration to the Spanish Philippines? What happened to all the silver that flowed into China as a result of this trade?
By examining the links of the Chinese there with their native places, Chia will show that their story is an important part of both the inter-Asian — and global — history of the time, as well as of the migration of Chinese both within China and overseas.
Chia’s research broadly involves the socioeconomic and cultural history of late imperial China (Song to mid-Qing dynasties, 10th-18th century), including book and print culture; domestic and overseas migration (to Southeast Asia), and trade networks in East and Southeast Asia from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries.
She received her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, and her Ph.D. in Chinese history from Columbia University.
The Modern China Lecture Series was initiated to promote awareness of important issues related to China for those on the CSUSB campus and in the community. In the series of more than 30 lectures, workshops, film screenings, and roundtable forums since January 2014, China scholars from UC San Diego, UC Riverside, the Claremont Colleges, UCLA, USC, UC Irvine and other institutions have visited the CSUSB campus to share their expertise and opinions.
Speakers have included specialists in history, economics, political science, philosophy, finance, security studies, literature, anthropology and other fields.
The Modern China Lecture Series is sponsored by the CSUSB Intellectual Life Fund, the CSUSB Department of History, the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, and the CSUSB History Club/Phi Alpha Theta Chapter, with support from to Pamela Crosson, CSUSB Department of History coordinator, and Iwona Maria-Contreras of the university’s John M. Pfau Library.
For more information on the Oct. 6 event or the Modern China Lecture Series, contact Jeremy Murray, assistant professor of history, at (909) 537-5540 or jmurray@csusb.edu.
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