Research On Culture Of Chinese In The Philippines From The Perspective Of Historical Geography(1571-1945)

Chinese in the Philippines with less population, who has created a stunning economic success, occupied an important position in overseas Chinese. Before the World War II, Chinese in the Philippines belonged to the temporarily society, striving to construct the cultural space similar to the hometown has been a cultural pursuit. The cultural space mainly include Chinese language, Chinese, traditional religion and custom, regional culture and blood culture in hometown. Due to the ancestral and distribution and colonial policy, the structure of the settlement, the culture of Chinese in the Philippines showed the particularity.With the size of the Chinese immigrants in the Philippines began in the late Ming dynasty, during the opium war to the time of the republic of China, reached the maximum numbers. Revealing the Chinese ancestral home and population distribution characteristics, excessive concentration in one place, with one or two subcenter. Chinese in the Philippines mainly from the south of Fujian Province, and focused on the smaller units, who came from Jinjiang county accounted for more than half the number of Chinese in the Philippines, which Nanan and Xiamen also accounted for a number of. Chinese in the Philippines from Guangdong late increased slightly, but accounted very small proportion. The Chinese in the Philippines mainly concentrated in Manila, in the late 19 th century when population flow strengthening,Cebu, Iloilo, Davao, Zamboanga towns had attracted more Chinese. But on population and degree of development, these cities had a large gap between Manila. Distribution of ancestral home and expatriate cities of overseas Chinese had a profound impact on spatial pattern of culture.The elements of cultural space, such as Chinese education, newspapers and the clan organization,began to develop in the relative freedom and democracy political environment during the reign of American, to develop a complete and mature in the 1930 s. The cultural elements on the basis of Chinese population size, distribution showed obvious regional dierences. Chinese schools has a wide distribution, which focused on Manila, Cebu, Iloilo and other commercial port, other cities generally had one school, the Chinese press and clan organization more concentrated in Manila. Due to the ancestral characteristics influence, Chinese blood culture in the Philippines more improtant than hometown association, which of Fujian province united in villages, Guangdong united in provinces, and established earlier. Lifves of Chinese in the Philippines followed traditional belief in Buddhism, Taoism and folk gods and trational folk, also blended with the Catholic Church.Chinese were considered as heterogeneous space from mainstream culture.Chinese in the Philippines tried to build a cultural space based on the native culture, dueing to identification of the Chinese culture, considered themselves as Chinese. Surviving in dierent region, the culture of Chinese in the Philippines gradually adapted to the local soil, while sticking to traditional kernel,presenting new characteristics.