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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- General Editor's Preface -- Note on Romanization of Chinese -- Introduction -- Bibliography -- PART ONE - CONCEPTS AND OVERVIEW -- 1 Conceptualizing Chinese Diasporas, 1842 to 1949 -- 2 The Distribution and Occupations of Overseas Chinese -- PART TWO - MIGRATION, INTERACTION AND HYBRIDITY IN SOUTHEAST ASIA -- 3 Change and Persistence in Chinese Culture Overseas: A Comparison of Thailand and Java -- 4 Mac Thien Tu and Phrayataksin: A Survey on their Political Stand. Conflicts and Background -- 5 The Chinaman Abroad: An Account of the Malayan Archipelago, particularly of Java -- 6 The Chinese Mestizo in Philippine History -- PART THREE - AROUND THE PACIFIC -- 7 Chinese Emigration to Canada, Australia and New Zealand -- 8 The Chinese Struggle for Civil Rights in Nineteenth Century America: The First Phase, 1850-1870 -- 9 Origins of the Chinese in the South Pacific Islands -- 10 From Gold Mountain Women to Astronauts' Wives: Challenges to New Zealand Chinese Women -- 11 Taoke or Coolies? Chinese Visions of the Chinese Diaspora -- PART FOUR - BETWEEN NATIONALISMS -- 12 A Note on the Origins of Hua-Ch'iao -- 13 The Overseas Chinese and the 1911 Revolution -- 14 Pigtail: A Pre-History of Chineseness in Siam -- Index

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- General Editors' Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Traditionalism and Colonialism: Changing Urban Roles in Asia -- 2 Macao as a Religious and Commercial Entrepôt in the 16th and 17th Centuries -- 3 Batavia, 1619-1740: The Rise and Fall of a Chinese Colonial Town -- 4 The Development of Pacific Coast Ports During the Spanish Colonial Period in Mexico -- 5 The Development of Philippine Cities Before 1900 -- 6 Some Reflections on Urbanization and the Historical Development of Market Towns in the Lower Yangtze Region, ca. 1500-1900 -- 7 Urban Sanitation in Preindustrial Japan -- 8 Coping in Their Own Way: Asian Cities and the Problem of Fires -- 9 A Historical Review of Housing Conditions in Hong Kong -- 10 Public Health Care in Valparaíso, Chile -- 11 Honolulu in the 19th Century: Notes on the Emergence of Urban Society in Hawaii -- 12 Australian Capital Cities in the Nineteenth Century -- 13 The Making of Urban New Zealand -- 14 Seattle, Vancouver, and the Klondike -- 15 City Commercial, City Beautiful, City Practical: The San Francisco Visions of William C. Ralston, James D. Phelan, and Michael M. O'Shaughnessy -- Index

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- General Editors' Preface -- Introduction -- PART ONE - DISPERSION AND DIFFUSION OF SEEDS AND FOOD PLANTS -- 1 The Introduction of American Food Plants into China -- 2 American Food Plants in China -- 3 The Early Impact of Japan upon American Agriculture -- 4 Early Coconut Culture in Western Mexico -- 5 The Peripatetic Chili Pepper: Diffusion of the Domesticated Capsicums since Columbus -- 6 Diplomats and Plant Collectors: The South American Commission, 1817-1818 -- PART TWO - SYSTEMS OF PRODUCTION AND THE IMPACT OF THE SPANISH CONQUEST -- 7 Agricultural Biodiversity and Peasant Rights to Subsistence in the Central Andes during Inca Rule -- 8 Landscapes of Cultivation in Mesoamerica on the Eve of the Conquest -- 9 Chinese Plantation Workers and Social Conflict in Peru in the Late Nineteenth Century -- 10 Free Versus Compulsory Labor: Mexico and the Philippines 1540-1648 -- PART THREE - MIGRATION OF RURAL PEOPLE ACROSS THE REGION -- 11 Chinese Settlements in Rural Southwest Asia: Unwritten Histories -- 12 Hawaiian Labor and Immigration Problems before Annexation -- 13 Socioeconomic Origins of Emigration: Guangdong to California, 1850-1882 -- 14 Chinese Livelihood in Rural California: The Impact of Economic Change, 1860-1880 -- 15 History of Japanese Migration to Peru, Part I -- PART FOUR - INTEGRATION OF MARKETS AND THE STIMULUS TO AGRICULTURE -- 16 Supply and Transportation for the Potosí Mines, 1545-1640 -- 17 The Poetics of American Agriculture: The United States Rice Industry in International Perspective -- 18 Gold Rushes and the Trans-Pacific Wheat Trade: California and Australia, 1848-1857 -- 19 The Passage to India Revisited: Asian Trade and the Development of the Far West, 1850-1900 -- Index

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- General Editor's Preface -- Introduction -- PART ONE - THE GALLEONS IN A LARGER CONTEXT -- 1 Geographical Exploration by the Spaniards -- 2 The Relations of the Chinese to the Philippine Islands -- PART TWO - INITIATING THE GALLEON TRADE -- 3 The Mediterranean Connection -- 4 Crusade or Commerce? Spanish-Moro Relations in the Sixteenth Century -- 5 Spain and Spanish Trade in Southeast Asia -- 6 The Japanese Trade and Residence in the Philippines: Before and During the Spanish Occupation -- PART THREE - IMPACTS OF THE GALLEON TRADE THROUGH THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY: THEORY AND EVIDENCE -- 7 Plata es Sangre: Sidelights on the Drain of Spanish-American Silver in the Far East, 1550-1700 -- 8 Le Galion de Manilie: Grandeur et décadence d'une route de la soie -- 9 Las Conexiones e Intercambios Americanos con el Oriente Bajo el Marco Imperial Español -- 10 The Chinese Silk Trade with Spanish-America from the Late Ming to the Mid-Ch'ing Period -- 11 Arbitrage, China, and World Trade in the Early Modern Period -- PART FOUR - FURTHER IMPACTS OF THE GALLEON TRADE -- 12 Eighteenth Century Philippine Economy: Commerce -- 13 Aventuras asiáticas del peso mexicano -- 14 Two and a Half Centuries of the Galleon Trade -- Index