Tag: filipino-chinese

• The Counter-Archive of Alfonso Ongpin: A Methodological Essay

  Binondo Church, Chinatown, Manila, 1902. Photo: University of Michigan Abstract This essay defines the methods I am using to examine a selection of Real Photo Postcards (RPPC) from two sets of archives. Both sets were taken in the Philippines during the early years of American colonial rule (1898-1946). One consists of ethnological portraits of tribesmen…

  December 25, 2022

  Essay, Photography