The Spanish Pacific, 1521-1815, Volume 2: A Reader of Primary Sources (Connected Histories in the Early Modern World)

This second collection of primary sources in English translation ranges across a gamut of places and moments in the early modern Spanish Pacific. It may be used in conjunction with Volume 1 or on its own. While its focus continues to be on the encounters and entanglements that arose in the Spanish Pacific, it more strongly emphasizes the challenges faced by secular and ecclesiastical authorities in their attempts to control a distant colony and reshape its culture, from the complex forms of identify formation in the diverse world of the colonial Philippines to the complexities of inter-imperial rivalry in East and Southeast Asia as a whole. As with Volume 1, each document is introduced by a specialist in the field and includes a list of suggestions for further reading. An introductory essay surveys current work in the field of early modern Spanish Pacific studies and provides a lengthy bibliography. Cover 1 Table of Contents 6 Acknowledgements 8 Introduction 10 Christina H. Lee and Ricardo Padrón 10 Bibliography of Recent Work in Early Modern Spanish Pacific Studies 22 1. “Indescribable Misery” (Mis)translated: A Letter from Manila’s Chinese Merchants to the Spanish King (1598) 38 Yangyou Fang 38 2. The First Biography of a Filipino: The Life of Miguel Ayatumo (1673) 52 Jorge Mojarro 52 3. Other Agents of Empire in the Spanish Pacific World (1755) 66 Kristie Patricia Flannery 66 4. A Chinese Ethnography of Spanish Manila (1812) 74 Guillermo Ruiz-Stovel 74 5. On the Legal Grounds of the Conquest of the Philippines (1568) 94 Guillaume Gaudin 94 6. A Catholic Conceptualization of the Pacific Ocean: The Mental Geography of Giambattista Lucarelli on His Journey from Mexico to China (1578) 106 David Salomoni 106 7. From Manila to Madrid via Portuguese India: Travels and Plans for the Conquest of Malacca by the Soldier Alonso Rodríguez (1582–84) 120 Guillaume Gaudin 120 8. Frustrated at the Door: Alessandro Valignano Evaluates the Jesuits’ China Mission (1588) 130 Liam Matthew Brockey 130 9. A Spanish Utopian Island in Japan (1599) 146 Giuseppe Marino 146 10. Two Friars Protest the Restriction on Missionaries Traveling to Japan (1604?–5) 160 Natalie Cobo 160 11. A Layman’s Account of Japanese Christianity (1619) 176 Noemí Martín Santo 176 12. The Sound and the Fury: A Vigorous Admonition from the King of Spain to the Audiencia of Manila (1620) 190 Jean-Noël Sánchez 190 13. The Deportation of Free Black People from Seventeenth-Century Manila (1636–37, 1652) 202 Diego Javier Luis 202 14. Filipino Cultural Practices in Colonial Contexts, as Described by Franciscan Juan de Jesús (1703) 214 David R. M. Irving 214 15. Race, Gender, and Colonial Rule in an Illustrated Eighteenth-Century Manuscript on Mexico and the Philippines (1763) 226 Ernest Rafael Hartwell 226 16. Censoring Tagalog Texts at the Tribunal of the Inquisition in New Spain (1772) 250 Marlon James Sales 250 Index 262