Orientalizing New Spain: Perspectives on Asian Influence in Colonial Mexico
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https://doi.org/10.32870/mycp.v15i43.380Abstract
This article examines the totality of Asia’s influence on New Spain that resulted from the conquest of Manila in 1571 and the regularization of transpacific trade – more widely known as the Manila Galleons or naos de China – between the Philippines and Acapulco. In its wake, a steady stream of Asian immigrants, commodities, and manufacturing techniques measurably impacted colonial society and economy through a process the author calls “Orientalization.” However, “Orientalization” should in no way be equated with Edward Said’s. Resumen:Este artículo investiga la totalidad de la influencia de Asia sobre la Nueva España que resultó de la conquista de Manila en 1571 y la regularización del comercio Transpacífico -comúnmente conocido como los galeones de Manila o las naos de China- entre las Filipinas y Acapulco. En sus inicios, una oleada constante de inmigrantes asiáticos, mercancías y nuevas técnicas de producción influyeron mesuradamente en la sociedad y la economía colonial mediante un proceso que el autor denomina “Orientalización”. No obstante, en ninguna manera “Orientalización” se debe equiparar con el concepto de Edward Said de “Orientalismo” por la relación histórica, única e intima de la Nueva España con Asia a principios de la edad Moderna.Downloads
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Edward R. Slack, Jr., “The Chinos in New Spain: A Corrective Lens for a Distorted Image” Journal of World History 20.1 (March 2009):57-67; “Sinifying New Spain: Cathay’s Influence on Colonial Mexico via the Nao de China”
Journal of Chinese Overseas 5.1 (May 2009): 20-24.. Gutierre Tibón, “The Two Chinas” Artes de Mexico 66.1 (2003): 66-69.
See the pioneering scholarship by Melba Falck and Héctor Palacios in El japonés que conquistó Guadalajara:La historia de Juan de Páez en la Guadalajara del siglo XVII (Guadalajara: Universidad de Guadalajara, 2009).
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