明朝中后期中菲贸易的迅速发展对马尼拉华侨华人社会的影响

The Influences of the Rapid Developmentof Trade between China and Philippines in theMid - later Ming Dynasty on the Society of Overseasand Ethnic Chinese in Manila

明朝中期以后,由于受明王朝海禁政策的部分解除、西班牙占领马尼拉后以其为中转站以及用拉丁美洲的白银交换运到马尼拉的中国丝绸等商品诸因素的影响,中菲贸易得到迅猛发展。中菲贸易的发展,商船频繁往来于两地,方便了中国东南沿海地区人民到菲律宾群岛谋生。到菲岛谋生中国人有很多留居马尼拉,这样就在该地形成了一个较大的华侨华人聚居区。八连市场就是适应中菲贸易的发展而设立的,其存在和发展在一定程度上受中菲贸易状况的影响。

In the mid- later Ming Dynasty, Manila was one of the most concentrated and the largest communities. Many articles researched the formation of Manila's overseas Chinese communities. Most of them study with regard to the burden of local population on land, frequent natural calamities and other problems in South - East of China. Only a few of them start with the development of the Sino - Philippine trade. But these articles evaluate the effects of Sino - Philippine trade on the formation and development of Chinese community in Manila on an obscure or somewhat shallow level. The author holds that Sino ?Philippine trade is an indispensable factor to the formation and development of the overseas Chinese community.