by Teresita Ang See
Language:
English with some Chinese and Filipino translations
Description:
full-color coffeetable book, 9x12 inches, 2.1 kilos, 268 pp.hardbound with jacket, around 400 color pictures
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 Philippine Life gives readers - whether Filipino, Chinese, Tsinoy or foreigners, whether scholas, student or the plain curious - a comprehensive and fascinating look at how the Chinese of ancient times came to be the Tsinoys of today.