From ancient trade to modern industry, from vendors and outcasts in a separate enclave to taipans and pillars of mainstream society, the Chinese experience in the Philippines is a riveting saga of "fortune, misfortune, birth, death and rebirth." With insightful texts and expressive photographs--many of them rare and never before published--Tsinoy: The Story of the Chinese in Philippine Life presents the sweeping tale of the Chinese immigrants to the Philippines.

Both history and adventure, chronicle and trivia, Tsinoy: The Story of the Chinese in the Philippine Life give readers--whether Filipino, Chinese, Tsinoy or foreigner, whether scholar, student or the plain curious--a comprehensive and fascinating look at how the Chinese of ancient times came to be the Tsinoys of today.

2005/268pp
Hardbound