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Posted by: Joshua Kueh
Part II of this post highlights aspects of language translation that attenuated Spanish aims in the Philippines: the persistence of local scripts and pronunciation, and pre-Hispanic cultural concepts.
Posted in: Asian Division, Southeast Asia
Posted by: Joshua Kueh
Part I of this post looks at how the establishment of a Spanish presence in the Philippines during the 16th-18th centuries was a collaborative enterprise that involved the interests of various actors: Chinese, prominent locals and Spanish.
Posted in: Asian Division, Southeast Asia
Posted by: Joshua Kueh
This blogpost looks at a newly digitized collection of 19th-century Malay letters from rulers to William Farquhar, Resident of Singapore, tracing its provenance to Alfred North and the Wilkes Expedition.
Posted in: Asian Division, Southeast Asia