Chinese Goods in Colonial Mexico | Manila Galleon Trade and Globalization of Asia and the Americas

In today's video, we shall explore the neglected history of how the Manila galleon and China's trade shaped colonial society and culture in colonial Mexico (New Spain). Please join on this fascinating journey through history
For more information on the Manila galleon trade see:
Etsuko Miyata Rodríguez, “The Early Manila Galleon: Merchant’s Networks and Markets in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Mexico.” 37-58.
Giraldez, Arturo. The Age of Trade: The Manila Galleons and the Dawn of the Global Economy. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015.
Bjork, Katharine. “The Link that Kept the Philippines Spanish: Mexican Merchant Interests and the Manila Trade, 1571-1815.” Journal of World History 9, 1 (Spring 1998): 25-50).
For more information on Chinese goods within New Spain see:
Pierce, Donna. “Popular and Prevalent: Asian Trade Goods in Northern New Spain, 1590-1850.” Colonial Latin American Review 25, 1 (2016): 77-97.
Slack, Edward R. Jr. “Sinifying New Spain: Cathay’s Influence on Colonial Mexico via the Nao de China. In The Chinese in Latin America and the Carribean, edited by Walton Look Lai and Tan Chee-Beng, 7-31. Leiden: Brill Press, 2010.
Slack, Edward R., Jr. “Orientalizing New Spain: Perspectives on Asian Influence in Colonial Mexico: Perspective on Asian Influence in Colonial Mexico.” México y la Cuenca del Pacífico 43 (January-April 2012): 97-127.
For a global history of Chinese porcelain and the Manila galleons see:
Priyadarshini, Meha. Chinese Porcelain in Colonial Mexico: The Material Worlds of an Early Modern Trade. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Music credit: Age of Empires II: Spanish theme

[@durandal1909]

Before New York or London, there was Mexico City. Recommendable reading: “The Silver Way”

[@thesharpiefp]

I have nothing but great things to say about this video, the narration is well done. The information is outstanding and the images and art is very cohesive with the narrative. Thank you for taking the time to put this together. Keep up the great work..

[@causewaykayak]

Another fascinating journey into things lesser known in Europe.

[@LaggingGames]

europe..

[@storiesinhistory]

Thanks, I am glad you enjoyed another video!

[@StoicHistorian]

Love these stories man, keep it coming

[@storiesinhistory]

Thanks, I appreciate the support my friend!

Hola. Parece ser un gran trabajo. Lástima que los hispanohablantes no podamos entenderlo cuando somos gran parte del relato. No podría editar una versión en español?

[@jerolvilladolid]

"Philippines" is actually a province of Mexico rather than another colony of Spain. It was ruled directly from Mexico and had Mexican appointed governor-generals instead of Spanish appointed governor-generals.

[@eu1531]

Wrong. See in Wikipedia (spanish) lista de gobernadores generales de filipinas. And after México independency filipinas was ruled directly from spain since 1898.

[@wigsplitter777]

​​@@eu1531(*edit
Also theirs a difference between ruling and colonizing a land. They ruled the land but only Colonized certain places I've seen unofficial pure indigenous reservation type towns/village in Mexico)
yeah wrong cause the term "Mexican" didn't even exist yet. But Mexico city was the unofficial capitol New Spain overseeing all the territory's so technically he's not wrong right people but the wrong label

[@Duquedecastro]

@@wigsplitter777That’s incorrect. The term “Mexicano” did exist and it existed since the 1500’s. The Kingdom of México was one of the kingdoms that made up the Viceroyalty of New Spain (not including the Philippines, only the real, actual New Spain). There are Spanish Crown records which speak of the navigational routes which were discovered by the “Mexicanos” in the 1560’s. You have to remember that Legazpi himself was from Mexico City, living there from his early 20’s to his 60’s before going to conquer with other Novohispanos/Mexicanos. His grandsons were Mexicanos. Half of the conquistadors were born in modern Mexico, and half in Spain.

[@Duquedecastro]

@@eu1531 Wrong. Mexico was the Viceroyalty or Kingdom of Nueva España. The Philippines was a Captaincy general and sub-territory of Nueva España. Mexico City administered it for about 250 years, then it went to Madrid for about 80 more because it was a drain on resources and Mexico didn’t want to take care of it.

[@poppypoppy98]

Philippines was a part of Spanish Empire. It was neither a colony nor province.

[@poppypoppy98]

Philippines was a part of Spanish Empire. It was neither a colony nor province. Right?

[@romeocivilino6667]

Chocolate Hot Drink is also a thing in the Spanish Philippines, originally limited to Aristocratic Families and (the Hacienderos and Native Filipino Nobility Clans), Friars and Merchant Traders, and later spread to the Middle-class commoners in the late17th upto early 18th Century.

[@storiesinhistory]

Interesting, the spread of Mexican culture to the Philippines is another fascinating half to this story.

[@JonDoeNeace]

That was imported. Considering Chocolate doesn't naturally occur anywhere in the world outside of the Americas.

[@Duquedecastro]

It’s was only “a thing” because Mexico City ruled the East Indies from the Philippines to the Marianas and Carolinas, etc. They brought all of that.

[@pgomezviolin]

Would you be able to look into what music genres might have travel with these Asian goods?

[@storiesinhistory]

That's an interesting topic, I've seen a few articles on the subject. So, I'll definitely make a video

[@pgomezviolin]

@@storiesinhistory can’t hardly wait!!!

[@Duquedecastro]

Thank you for emphasizing that much of the “Manila” galleon was about trade with **China** . Many filipinos blow things out of proportion to put themselves and Philippines in the spotlight. It was more about China and India, and in reality the Philippines was but **one** area with Spanish rule in Asia. They always say they’re the “only” one. Not true at all. The Marianas, Guam, Carolinas, and ports in other Asian countries were all considered the East Indies.