Sangleyes en Manila: Algunas percepciones de las autoridades capitalinas, 1603-1630

Abstract

Sino-Spanish relations in the Philippines were characterized by mutual dependence and its recurring conflicts. Hence, this article analyzes the perceptions of three groups of Spanish capital’s authorities settled in Manila to the sangleys: governors, the Actual Audience and Dominicans. The governors had a negative view towards Chinese people for the recent sangley lifting of 1603; the Actual Audience of Manila showed insistent on controlling the related to the sinense justice, as it was favored economically because Chinese lawsuits worth more than the “Indians and Spanish”; and the Dominicans thought that assimilating the Chinese to Christianity would bring them closer to the Spanish world.