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When the Chinese pirate Limahong attacked Manila in 1574, officials in Fujian Province were willing to let the Spanish establish a trade port on an island south of Xiamen, in return for Limahong's capture. However, the governor of the Philippines did not respond favourably, and the offer came to nothing when Limahong escaped from Manila.
A Chinese restaurant in Usera district , the "Chinatown" of Spanish capital. The age structure of Chinese in Spain is skewed very young; 2003 figures showed only 1.8% aged 65 or older, as compared to 7% of the population of the People's Republic of China and 17.5% of that of Spain, [ 50 ] while over 17% were under the age of 15. [ 49 ]
Many Chinese immigrants are small business owners, including restaurants and corner stores, and the success of these businesses have contributed to the growing presence of Asian immigrants in the Spanish economy. Besides the Chinese, the only other immigrant groups from East Asia that form a significant part of the East Asian immigrant ...
Juan Mencarini Pierotti (15 June 1860 in Alexandria, Egypt – 29 April 1939 in Manila, Philippines) was a Spanish mid-rank employee of the Chinese Maritime Customs Service between 1881 and 1912. After voluntarily resigning, Mencarini registered an import-export company with base in Shanghai and briefly acted as commercial attaché for the ...
Spanish people of Taiwanese descent (3 P) Pages in category "Spanish people of Chinese descent" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
Planned phases in the Empresa de China. Philip II of Spain and I of Portugal, under whose reign the Chinese Enterprise was developed.. The Empresa de China ("China enterprise") was a long-time projected conquest of China by the Spanish Empire.
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The Royal Treasuries of the Spanish Empire in America, 2 vol (1982) vol1 online also vol 2 online; Xiantang, Li. "The Paradoxical Effect of Silver in the Economies of Ming and Qing China: On the New Myth Created by the 'Global Economic View' of Andre Gunder Frank and Kenneth Pomeranz." Chinese Studies in History 45.1 (2011): 84-99.