Jely A. Galang, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of History
University of the Philippines Diliman
About
Jely A. Galang, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of history at the University of the Philippines-Diliman. Currently, I serve as the Deputy Director of the UP Third World Studies Center, and the Editor-in-Chief of the Chinese Studies Journal. I teach courses on Philippine history and historiography, colonialism and imperialism, and modern East Asia. I am presently working on my book project Vagrants and Outcasts which is a social history of working-class Chinese and other “social undesirables” in the Philippines during the nineteenth century. My recent publications have appeared in journals such as the Journal of Chinese Overseas, China & Asia: A Journal in Historical Studies, Translocal Chinese: East Asian Perspectives, Philippines Studies, Southeast Asian Studies, among others.
Academic Background
PhD Asian Studies (History)
Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia
Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia
MA History
University of the Philippines Diliman
University of the Philippines Diliman
BA History, cum laude
University of the Philippines Diliman
University of the Philippines Diliman
Research Interests
- Nineteenth century Philippines
- Modern history of East Asia particularly China
- History of Crime and Punishment
Undegraduate Courses Taught
- Kas 158 : (Special Topics on Asia) Ethnic Chinese in Southeast Asia
- Kas 151 : Modern East Asia
- Kas 128: (Special Topic on Philippine History) China and the Chinese in Philippine History
- Kas 117: Social History of the Philippines
- Kas 113: Economic History of the Philippines
- Kas 111: The Philippines Under the US and Japan
- Kas 10: Introduction to History
- KAS 1 : Philippine History
- Global Studies 197: A Bite of China
- Global Studies 197 : The Making of Global Korea
Graduate Courses Taught
- Kas 351: Seminar on Contemporary Developments in East Asia
- Kas 302: Seminar of Imperialism and Colonialism
- Kas 210: Problems in the Interpretations of Philippine History
- Kas 209: (Selected Topics in Philippine History) History of Agriculture in the Philippines
- Kas 206: Contemporary Issues in Asia
- Kas 204: The Philippines During the Nineteenth Century
Book Chapters
- “Cabecilla Principal de Sangleyes and Chinese Immigration in the Late-Eighteenth Century Philippines,” Sincronicas Barrocas (Siglos XVI-XVIII): Agentes, Textos y Objetos Entre Iberoamerica, Asia y Europa, edited by Kristyl Obispado and Daniel Orizaga Dogum, (Seville, Spain: Universidad Pablo de Olavides, Publicaciones Enredars, 2024), pp. 223-256.
- “Emergence of ‘Undesirable’ and ‘Proletariat’ Chinese in the Nineteenth-Century Philippines,” Plural Entanglements: Philippine Studies, edited by Dada Docot, Stephen Acabado and Clement Camposano, pp. 84-113 (Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2023).
Journal Articles/Conference Proceedings
- “Dominican Missionaries and the Importation of Unwanted Chinese Children to the Philippines in the Mid-Nineteenth Century,” Journal of the Society for Asian Humanities, Vol. 54 (2023), pp. 112-135.
- “The 1864 Sino-Spanish Treaty and the Chinese in the Philippines, 1871-1896,” Chinese Studies Journal, vol. 17 (2023): 108-139.
- “Los Chinos Macanistas: The Cantonese Chinese in the Spanish Philippines, 1778-1898,” Chinese Studies Journal, vol. 16 (2022), 1-31.
- “Chinese Prisoners in the Nineteenth-Century Philippines,” China and Asia: A Journal in Historical Studies 3 (2021) pp. 274-307.
- “Deportation of ‘Undesirable’ Chinese in the Philippines, 1837-1882,” Translocal Chinese: East Asian Perspectives 15 (2021), pp. 214-246.
- “Chinese Laborers on a Mining Frontier: The Case of Copper Miners in Northern Luzon, 1856-1898,” Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 10, No. 1, April 2021, pp. 3-31.
- “Living Carriers in the East: Chinese Cargadores in Nineteenth-Century Manila,” Philippine Studies: Historiographical & Ethnographic Viewpoints, Vol. 69, No. 1 (2021), pp. 71-108. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1353/phs.2021.0002
- “Expulsion of ‘Undesirable’ Chinese from the Philippines, 1883-1898,” Journal of Chinese Overseas 17 (2021), 147-178.
- “Policing the Chinese: Tenientes Mayores de Chinos and ‘Undesirable’ Chinese in the Philippines, 1870-1898,” Chinese Studies Journal, vol. 14 (Jan. 2021), 89-120.
- “Hacienda Gomantong: The 1888 Chinese Immigration Decree, A German Tobacco Plantation, and Chinese Laborers in Jolo, Sulu, Southern Philippines.” Asian Studies: Journal of Critical Perspectives on Asia 56: 2 (2020), pp. 1-32.
- “Flight and Freedom: Chinese Fugitives and the Spanish Colonial State in the Nineteenth-Century Philippines,” Social Science Diliman: A Philippine Journal of Society and Change, vol. 16, no. 1 (2020), pp. 1-27.
- “Prosecuting the ‘Criminals’: ‘Undesirable’ Chinese and Court System in the Nineteenth-Century Philippines,” Philippine Social Sciences Review, Vol. 71, No. 1 (2019), pp. 1-26.
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