Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Acknowledgements 7
4. Introduction 9
5. Bibliography of Recent Work in Early Modern Spanish Pacific Studies 21
6. 1. “Indescribable Misery” (Mis)translated : A Letter from Manila’s Chinese Merchants to the Spanish King (1598)1 37
7. 2. The First Biography of a Filipino: The Life of Miguel Ayatumo (1673) 51
8. 3. Other Agents of Empire in the Spanish Pacific World (1755) 65
9. 4. A Chinese Ethnography of Spanish Manila (1812) 73
10. 5. On the Legal Grounds of the Conquest of the Philippines (1568) 93
11. 6. A Catholic Conceptualization of the Pacific Ocean : The Mental Geography of Giambattista Lucarelli on His Journey from Mexico to China (1578) 105
12. 7. From Manila to Madrid via Portuguese India : Travels and Plans for the Conquest of Malacca by the Soldier Alonso Rodríguez (1582–84) 119
13. 8. Frustrated at the Door : Alessandro Valignano Evaluates the Jesuits’ China Mission (1588) 129
14. 9. A Spanish Utopian Island in Japan (1599) 145
15. 10. Two Friars Protest the Restriction on Missionaries Traveling to Japan (1604?–5) 159
16. 11. A Layman’s Account of Japanese Christianity (1619) 175
17. 12. The Sound and the Fury : A Vigorous Admonition from the King of Spain to the Audiencia of Manila (1620) 189
18. 13. The Deportation of Free Black People from Seventeenth-Century Manila (1636–37, 1652) 201
19. 14. Filipino Cultural Practices in Colonial Contexts , as Described by Franciscan Juan de Jesús (1703)1 213
20. 15. Race, Gender, and Colonial Rule in an Illustrated Eighteenth-Century Manuscript on Mexico and the Philippines (1763) 225
21. 16. Censoring Tagalog Texts at the Tribunal of the Inquisition in New Spain (1772) 249
22. Index 261