- Speeches 2021-04-30
- The Mixed Society of Manila in the Early Spanish Colonial Period
Speaker: Prof. Ellen Hsieh (Institute of Anthropology, National Tsing Hua University)
Time: 2021/5/12 (Wednseday) 14:00-16:00
Location: Conference room on the 7th floor, College of Liberal Arts, National Cheng Kung University
The capital of Spain's colonies in the southeast is Manila in the Philippines. Its geographical location is often regarded as the starting point of the "Manila Galleon", and historians even regard it as the beginning of the development of early modern global history. However, little is known about the city's early development in general, and most accounts tend to be limited to historical events that emphasize ethnic conflict or commercial competition. From the perspective of post-colonial archeology, this lecture will use the ceramics unearthed inside and outside the capital of Manila, the capital of the Philippines, as materials, supplemented by the image documents of Boxer Codex, to explore the interactive relationship between the diverse ethnic groups in the capital circle in the early days of Spanish colonialism in the Philippines, and further communicate with Dialogue on relevant research in Europe and America.