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Part I The Setting
Introduction

1．The Comparative Framework
Comparing Political Economies
The Spanish Overseas Empire
Ming China
Azuchi-Momoyama/Tokugawa Japan
Encountering the Other
Concluding Remarks

Part II Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Philippines
2. The Foundations of a Global Stage
The Early Modern Philippines
The Castilian Territorial Model
Crown Monopolies: Overseas Spain's Political Economy
Vicious Demographic Circles
Towards Manila's Global Integration

3. The Trilogy of Triangular Trade
The Manila System
How It All Began
South China Sea Trade in the Sixteenth Century
Integrating the Manila Galleon into South East Asian Trading
Networks
The Spirits That They Called-Bargaining on the Spot
Provisions Trade
Connections between Manila and Macao
Concluding Remarks

Part III Zooming Out: Local, Central, and Global Connections
4. Triangular Foreign Relations
Diplomatic Shifts between Japan and Ming China
Foreign Relations between China and Overseas Spain
Diplomatic Relations between Japan and the Overseas Empire

5. Local and Central Dualism
Manila Trade-related Central and Local Dualism

6. Local-Central Tensions
Geopolitical Shifts
Early Modern 'Capacity Building': Transfer via Manila
Concluding Remarks: Local-Central Dualism in Foreign Relations

Part IV Zooming In: Early Modern Manila and Regional Globalisation
7. Manila as Port City
New Communication Patterns and Early Modern Globalisation
East Asian Human Agency
A Flexible Labour Market?

8. Actors and Agency
Juridical Issues and Multicultural Conflicts
Overseas Chinese (Huaqiao) in Manila
The Japanese in Manila
Cultural and Social Issues
Maritime Manila's and Post-1624 Developments
Concluding Remarks

Conclusion