Christina H. Lee – The Invention of the Sangley in the Early Modern Spanish Philippines

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Christina H. Lee is Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Princeton University. Her research focuses on the literary, social, and cultural productions of Iberian Spain and the Spanish Transpacific during the early modern period. Her many publications include the monographs The Anxiety of Sameness in Early Modern Spain (Manchester UP, 2015) and Saints of Resistance: Devotions in the Philippines under Early Spanish Rule (2021) and the edited volumes The Spanish Pacific, 1521-1815: A Reader of Primary Sources (Amsterdam UP, 2020-24).