Publications
Policing the Chinese: tenientes Mayores de Chinos and ‘Undesirable’ Chinese in the Philippines, 1870-1898
This paper explores an aspect of the 19th-century Philippine judicial system by examining the origins and development of the office of the tenientes mayores de chinos framed within the broader state concern related to the “undesirable” Chinese in the last three decades of the Spanish regime. Using underutilized primary materials from various archives in Manila and Madrid, it probes into how and why the government deemed it necessary to include the Chinese community in curbing criminality through such “Chinese agents.” Although a brief section is devoted to law enforcement agencies from outside the Chinese community, the focus will be on these Chinese officers, specifically interrogating how they conducted their dual function as government agents who had to enforce the law, and, at the same time, as leaders of their community, expected to protect their compatriots, even the “criminal” ones.
| Title | Book | Faculty Involved | Keywords | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independence and Public Health: Technologies of Rule in the Colonial Philippines, 1900–1930s | Dreams of Prevention and Control: Policing and Public Health in Colonial Asia | Ma. Mercedes G. Planta, Ph.D. | 2025 | |
| Indigenous datus' Constructions of Colonial Enslavement in the Philippines of Spain's Transpacific West | The Routledge Companion to Race in Early Modern Artistic, Material, and Visual Production | Nicholas Michael C. Sy | 2025 | |
| Bridging Science and Local Knowledge/Perception: A Case Study of Manila Bay Coastal Provinces (Philippines) After the 1988 Red Tide Episode | Scientists and the Establishment of a Mass Environmental Awareness (1950-1990) | Ma. Luisa De Leon-Bolinao, Ph.D. | 2025 | |
| A Woman, a Certain Sora | More Pinay Than We Admit 2: The Filipinas Emerges from the Margins | Maria Serena I. Diokno, Ph.D. | 2025 | |
| Road to Political Empowerment: Women’s Organizations and the Fight for Suffrage (1905-1937) | More Pinay Than We Admit 2: The Filipinas Emerges from the Margins | Janet S. Reguindin-Estella, Ph.D. | 2025 | |
| Sweet Hopes and Delightful Longings”: Motherhood in Early Twentieth Century Philippines. | More Pinay Than We Admit 2: The Filipinas Emerges from the Margins | Rhodalyn C. Wani-Obias, Ph.D. | 2025 | |
| Illegal Immigration and Chinese Transnational Networks in Southern Philippines, 1850–1898 | Transnational Southeast Asia: Communities, Contestations and Cultures | Jely A. Galang, Ph.D. | Chinese, Philippines, Illegal migration, Sulu, Mindanao | 2025 |
| Optics, Illusions, and Historical Philippine Populations | Everyday Life in the Philippines, 1657–1699 | Nicholas Michael C. Sy | 2025 | |
| Wills of the Dead: Inheritance and Other Legacies in Early Modern Philippines | Everyday Life in the Philippines, 1657–1699 | Grace Liza Y. Concepcion, Ph.D. | 2025 | |
| Navigating Legal Frontiers: Spanish consulates in Singapore and Hong Kong in the second half of the nineteenth century | Redes Consulares en el Mar de China. Cónsules extranjeros en Filipinas Cónsules españoles en China | Ros A. Costelo, Ph.D. | 2024 | |
| Colonias Entrelazadas: Filipinas y el Establecimiento de los Consulados Españoles en Singapur y Hong Kong en la Segunda Mitad del Siglo XIX | Cónsules e Imperios El establecimiento de consulados extranjeros en las Filipinas del Siglo XIX | Ros A. Costelo, Ph.D. | 2023 | |
| Indigenous Landowners in the 17th-century Philippines. | 1521 Revisited: The Quincentennial Commemorations in the Philippines, volume III, 184-200 | Grace Liza Y. Concepcion, Ph.D. | Land ownership, 17th century, land dispute, land sale, Philippines | 2023 |
| Lo que entra por la boca no hace daño al alma: food, sailors, and the seventeenth-century Spanish Pacific | Sincronías Barrocas (Siglos XVI-XVIII): Agentes, textos y objetos entre Iberoamérica, Asia y Europa | Kristyl N. Obispado, Ph.D. | Sailors’ food, seventeenth century, Pacific sailor, heresy, Spanish empire | 2023 |
| Cabecilla principal de sangleyes and Chinese immigration in the late- eighteenth century Philippines | Sincronías Barrocas (Siglos XVI-XVIII): Agentes, textos y objetos entre Iberoamérica, Asia y Europa | Jely A. Galang, Ph.D. | Chinese laborers, cabecilla principal, immigration, Manila | 2023 |
| Paramount Yet Frontier: A Historiographical Appraisal of Select 18th-Century Philippine Geological Disasters | Sincronías Barrocas (Siglos XVI-XVIII): Agentes, textos y objetos entre Iberoamérica, Asia y Europa | Kerby C. Alvarez, Ph.D. | Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, eighteenth-century Philippines, historical disasters, Philippine colonial history | 2023 |
| Si Rene O. Villanueva sa Panimulang Yugto ng Pag-akda para sa Bata, 1977-1986 | Bata, Hiwaga, Bansa: Pamana ni Rene O. Villanueva sa Panitikang Pambata | Emmanuel Jayson V. Bolata | Rene Villanueva, panitikang pambata, kasaysayang pampanitikan | 2023 |
| The Czechs in the Philippines in World War II | Kaibigan-Prátelé: Czech-Philippines | Ricardo T. Jose, Ph.D. | 2023 | |
| Surviving Obscurity: An Inquiry into the Malisbong Massacre (1974–2013) | The Marcos Years: The Age of Crisis and Repression | Lorenzo Jose C. Martinez | 2023 | |
| To Struggle and Triumph: Maria Cristina V. Rodriguez’s Life during the Martial Law Years | The Marcos Years: The Age of Crisis and Repression | Francisco Jayme Paolo A. Guiang | 2023 | |
| Introduction: Storytelling and Academic Study: Toward a Memory of Dictatorship | The Marcos Years: The Age of Crisis and Repression | Ferdinand C. Llanes, Ph.D. | 2023 | |
| Foundations of Philippine Environmentalism: Science, Citizenship, and Nationhood | Philippine Studies: Plural Entanglements | Ruel V. Pagunsan, Ph.D. | 2023 | |
| Textiles and Other Trade Goods: The Philippines in the Sixteenth-Century Global Trade | Philippine Studies: Plural Entanglements | Kristyl N. Obispado, Ph.D. | 2023 | |
| Emergence of "Undesirable" and "Proletariat" Chinese in the Nineteenth-Century Philippines. | Philippine Studies: Plural Entanglements | Jely A. Galang, Ph.D. | 2023 | |
| Rizal’s Project: Historical Reconstruction of the Philippine Past | 1521 Revisited: The Quincentennial Commemorations in the Philippines Volume 2 | Kerby C. Alvarez, Ph.D. | 2023 | |
| Populist authoritarianism against the ‘Firewall’ of rights and due process | The Volatility and Future of Democracies in Asia | Maria Serena I. Diokno, Ph.D. | 2022 | |
| Colonial Civil Engineers and the Inspección General de Obras Públicas 1866-1898 | Transforming the 19th Century Philippines | Ros A. Costelo, Ph.D. | 2022 | |
| Lunas ng Taong-Labas sa Kontemporanyong Panahon: Ang Tawak at Tandok ng Marinduque | Taong-Labas: Ang Tulisan, Remontado, at Vagamundo sa Kasaysayan at Kalinangang Pilipino | Emmanuel Jayson V. Bolata | Marinduque, Tawak, Tandok, Lala, Bisa | 2022 |
| Protestante Man, Lumaban Din: Ang Paninindigan ng Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches (CPBC) Laban sa Diktadurang Marcos | Taong-Labas: Ang Tulisan, Remontado, at Vagamundo sa Kasaysayan at Kalinangang Pilipino | Kristoffer R. Esquejo, Ph.D. | 2022 | |
| Ati, Bukidnon, at Agraviados: Ang Taong-Labas at Paglikha ng Panghimagsikang Tradisyon sa Isla ng Panay | Taong-Labas: Ang Tulisan, Remontado, at Vagamundo sa Kasaysayan at Kalinangang Pilipino | Vicente C. Villan, Ph.D. | 2022 | |
| Disease, Death, and Destruction: Dante and Boccaccio's Second Coming and Interstices of Filipino Reception | Himaya: Panitikan ng Pagbabanyuhay | Emmanuel Jayson V. Bolata | Dante, Boccaccio, Filipino reception, COVID-19, loob | 2022 |
| Policing the Chinese: tenientes Mayores de Chinos and ‘Undesirable’ Chinese in the Philippines, 1870-1898 | Philippines–China Relations at 45 During the COVID-19 Pandemic: New Discoveries, Recent Developments, and Continuing Concerns | Jely A. Galang, Ph.D. | 2021 |
