Resumen de Birds and People. An outline of chinos in Mexico (1565-1700)
This article is to some degree an extended abstract of my MA dissertation on the chino community in colonial Mexico. The dissertation was written in Spanish under the title Chinos en México and deposited in September 2010 at the Institut d’Història Jaume Vicens Vives library at Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain. There I describe my findings: an extensive compilation, transcription and analysis of almost all the sources citing chino and china preserved at the Archivo General de la Nación(AGN) in Mexico City. The present text, however, was written in English ex profeso for this publication: while its foundations can be found in Chinos en Méxicodissertation, it is a different building altogether
