The Quest for the Oracle Birds: Researching the Chinese Community in Colonial Mexico (1565-1700)

The Asian Diaspora in the Americas in the 16th and 17th has been neglected by scholars for a long time. This fact is baffling, not only for the great interest of this topic in of itself, but also because it could provide new knowledge of colonial Mexico, especially in terms of the interaction among the many groups that populated the colony. This early movement of people and ideas across the largest extension of water in the planet is characteristic of what has been called the ¿archaic globalization,¿ and thus research on these matters could contribute to the history of globalization.In this presentation, I seek to further elaborate on the themes outlined by Edward Slack in The Chinos in New Spain: A Corrective Lens for a Distorted Image, an article published in 2009 in the Journal of World History. Firstly, I would like to bring forth some evidence that indicates that Asian religious practices were present in Mexico in the 1600s. Furthermore, I will argue that the traces of these practices are still visible today, in the form of a popular fortune-telling tradition. Secondly, I intend to provide some information about the arrival, settlement and distribution of the Asian Diaspora. I will focus on their distribution within Mexico City. Thirdly, I will elaborate on their occupations, social status and daily life, as well as in the patterns in marriages and relations with other groups. And lastly, I will show how the guild of barbers served as an Asian immigrant reception network.

Concilios provinciales, primero y segundo, celebrados en la muy noble y muy leal ciudad de México, presidiendo el illmo. y rmo. señor D. Fr. Alonzo de Montúfar en los años de 1555 y 1565 : dalos a luz el illmo. Sr. D. Francisco Antonio Lorenzana, arzobispo de esta santa metropolitana iglesia.

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Concilios provincial es primero y segundo, celebrado en la muy noble y muy leal ciudad de México, presidiendo el illmo. y Rmo. señor D. Fr. Alfonso de Montufar, en los años de 1555, y 1565 dalos a luz el Illmo. Sr. D. Francisco Antonio.

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Concilios provinciales, primero y segundo, celebrados en la muy noble y muy leal ciudad de México, presidiendo el illmo. y rmo. señor D. Fr. Alonzo de Montufar en los años de 1555 y 1565 : dalos a luz elillmo. Sr. D. Francisco Antonio Lorenzana, arzobispo de esta santa metropolitana iglesia.

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Noticia histórica de la conjuración del Marqués del Valle. Años de 1565-1568. Formada en vista de nuevos documentos originales y seguida de un estracto de los mismos documentos

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Mus Hs 1565 - Parthia toni B a 8 stromenti : due clarinetto toni B, due oboe, due corni toni B, due fagotto

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Pragmaticas nueuas : quaderno de algunas pragmaticas y declaraciones nueuas que los señores del conseio Real de su Magestad manda[n] que se impriman este año de 1565.

Capitulares grab. xil.