G.E. Rizal Life,Works and Writing

1. Rizal Cultural Roots
Josefino Tulabing Larena Jr.,KCR ,CPS,MPA

2. Table of Content
• The Ascendance of
the Chinese Mestizo
• Agrarian Relations
and the Friar Lands

3. THE ASCENDANCE OF THE CHINESE
MESTIZO
The significant roles of Chinese
mestizo in Philippine history
,governance and economy .It also
shows how the Chinese mestizos
influenced the character of Rizal
who has Chinese roots

4. Chinese History in the Philippines
• 13th century the
Chinese were already
in the Philippine
Archipelago
• Chinese Merchants
between the coasts of
Manila and China

5. Chinese History in the Philippines
• 1594 the Spanish
Governor Luis Perez
Dasmariñas created
Binondo as a
settlement for
Chinese Mestizo

6. Chinese History in the Philippines
• Binondo
• It is the oldest Chinatown in
the world, established in
1594 by the Spaniards as a
settlement
near Intramuros but across
the Pasig River for Catholic
Chinese, it was positioned so
that colonial rulers could
keep a close eye on their
migrant subjects. It was
already a hub of Chinese
commerce even before the
Spanish colonial period.
Binondo is the center of
commerce and trade
of Manila, where all types of
business run by Filipino-
Chinese thrive.

7. Binondo Pre- War

8. Chinese Catholic Influence
• St. Lorenzo Ruiz, the
Filipino protomartyr
• Venerable Mother
Ignacia del Espiritu
Santo, founder of the
Congregation of the
Religious of the Virgin
Mary.

9. Chinese History in the Philippines
• In the early 17th century
more than 100 chinese
intermarriages to the native
Filipinos in Iloilo,Pampanga,
Negros and Cebu
• Josefa & JAVIER FRANCISCO
ELIGIO GONZALEZ Y SIOCO

10. Chinese History in the Philippines
• Chinese in Dumaguete

11. Chinese History in the Philippines
• Chinese in Dumaguete
• This two noble Gentlemen
are the modern Rizal of
Dumaguete society. Many
leaders of the Philippine
Revolution themselves have
substantial Chinese
ancestry. These include
Emilio Aguinaldo, Andrés
Bonifacio, Marcelo del Pilar,
Antonio Luna, José Rizal,
and Manuel Tinio

12. Chinese History in the Philippines
• 1741 Legal status was
officially established

13. Chinese History in the Philippines
• These classes are the
• 1.Spaniards and Spanish
mestizos
• 2.Indios
• 3.Chinese
• 4. Chinese mestizos

14. Chinese History in the Philippines
• 19th century Chinese mestizo
• 1. any person born of a Chinese mestizo
• 2. a spanish mestiza who married a chinese
mestizo
• 3.Chinese of a Spanish mestiza and a Chinese
mestizo
• 4. A Chinese mestiza and an Indio were listed
as Indios

16. Sangley
• Sangley is an archaic and
derogatory term used in the
Philippines beginning in the
Spanish colonial period to
describe and classify a person
of mixed Chinese and Filipino
ancestry (the latter were
referred to as Indio).
• Tsinoy (from the Spanish
word Chino, and the word
Pinoy) is also used to refer to
a person of Chinese descent.

17. Significance of the Chinese Mestizo
• 1. They carried on a lucrative commerce by
collecting goods from North and selling them
in Manila.
• They monopolized the internal trading in the
Philippines while the Spanish mestizos were
concerned with foreign trade
• by 1800s Chinese mestizos in the provinces
began to form opinions regarding's the
Spanish colonial rule.

18. Meet the Chinese Patriots of the
Philippines
• Many of these Katipuneros were of Chinese
descent. A substantial section of colonial
society were mestizos, born of mixed
marriages between Chinese migrants and
Filipino natives. These mestizos were
educated, relatively middle class, and some
were even versed in European liberalism,
calling themselves ilustrados. It
was ilustrados like Rizal and Del Pilar who
inspired Andres Bonifacio to form the
Katipunan.

19. Meet the Chinese Patriots of the
Philippines
Manuel Tinio Teodoro Sandiko

20. • Ramon Ongpin • Pedro Paterno

21. Chinese Mestizo during Negros
Revolution
Don Diego de la Viña

22. Agrarian Disputies

23. Brief History OF Friar Estates in the
Philippines
• The origin of the friar
estates can be traced
back to land grants
awarded to the early
Spanish conquistadores
who arrived in the
Philippines during the
late sixteenth and early
seventeenth centuries

24. History of the Friar Lands
• Approximately 120 Spaniards were granted
either large tracts of land called sitio de
ganado mayor or smaller tracts called
caballerias.

25. • When the export of agricultural crops started
to blossom in the 18th century, the “
inquilinato system” was put into place.In this
system, one who rented land for a fixed
annual amount , an inquilano also lease the
land they were renting from the landlord to
• Kasama or sharecropper who would them be
responsible for cultivating the land.

26. Hacienda de Calamba Dispute
• The Hacienda de Calamba was originally
owned by a Spaniard who donated the land to
Jesuit frairs to allow him to permanently stay
in the Jesuit monastery.
• The Jesuit were expelled from the Philippines
• 1803 the land was sold to Don Clemente de
Azansa
• Afterhis death ,the family sold to the
Dominican who claimed ownership until late
19th century

27. • Mercado family became one of the principal
inquilinos of the hacienda for 380 hectares
• However when conflicts on land ownership in
the hacienda arose in 1883,the family
evidently suffered

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