Newspaper articles by Ferdinand Philip F Victoria
This newspaper article appeared in the January 2015 issue of the Filipino-Australian Bayanihan Ne... more This newspaper article appeared in the January 2015 issue of the Filipino-Australian Bayanihan News, page 10.
This newspaper article appeared in the November 2014 issue of the Filipino-Australian Bayanihan N... more This newspaper article appeared in the November 2014 issue of the Filipino-Australian Bayanihan News, page 10.
Appeared in Filipio-Australian Bayanihan News, pages 10 to 14.
Appeared in Filipino-Australian Bayanihan News, June 2014, pages 10-14.
This article talks about two cases involving civilian relations in Manila during the Philippine-A... more This article talks about two cases involving civilian relations in Manila during the Philippine-American War. This appeared at the Filipino-Australian Bayanihan News issue of September 2014.
This is a brief article about the history of time reckoning in the Philippines beginning with the... more This is a brief article about the history of time reckoning in the Philippines beginning with the shift to the Gregorian calendar in the 16th century up to the recent experiments with Daylight Savings Time (DST). This was published in the Filipino-Australian Bayanihan News issue of March 2015.
This article recounts the reaction of Filipino and American presses upon the death of Apolinario ... more This article recounts the reaction of Filipino and American presses upon the death of Apolinario Mabini in May 1903. Ranging from the absurd to the emotional, the reactions captured a snapshot of the Filipino national sentiment at a time when the memory of the Philippine-American War had not died down. This appeared in the Filipino-Australian Bayanihan News issue of July 2014.
This is a counterfactual (What if?) discussion of one possible outcome during the fateful days of... more This is a counterfactual (What if?) discussion of one possible outcome during the fateful days of the Philippine People Power Revolution of February 1986. The article argues in favor of a reverse counterfactual: Corazon Aquino still heads the new Philippine government but without the goodwill established by People Power. The article was serialized in two parts (with a modified title) in the Filipino-Australian Bayanihan News issue of March and April 2014.
A brief account on the creation of the Opium Investigating Committee and the Philippine Opium Rep... more A brief account on the creation of the Opium Investigating Committee and the Philippine Opium Report of 1905, which was a major influence in the shift towards a prohibition-based global regime against the recreational use of drugs. This appeared in the Filipino-Australian Bayanihan News issue of December 2014.
A more detailed analysis of the report has appeared in "The Most Humane of Any that Could be Adopted: The Philippine Opium Committee Report and the Imagining of the Opium Consumer’s World in the Colonial Philippines, 1903-1905." In Towards a Filipino History: A Festschrift for Zeus A. Salazar. Portia Reyes, ed. (Quezon City: BAKAS, 2015). 88-156.
This is an account of the run-up to the 1937 plebiscite that finally granted Filipino women the r... more This is an account of the run-up to the 1937 plebiscite that finally granted Filipino women the right to vote. This appeared in the Filipino-Australian Bayanihan News issue of August 2014.
This is the second part of an article on Tan Malaka and the role of Filipino politicians like Jos... more This is the second part of an article on Tan Malaka and the role of Filipino politicians like Jose Abad Santos and Manuel Quezon played in the fight to prevent Malaka's extradition. It appeared on the Filipino-Australian Bayanihan News issue of May 2015. Erratum on the penultimate sentence: it should read '1927' instead of 1937. Typographical error.
Book chapters by Ferdinand Philip F Victoria
Ito ay isang pagtalakay sa implementasyon ng Overseas Voting at Dual Citizenship sa ilalim ng Kon... more Ito ay isang pagtalakay sa implementasyon ng Overseas Voting at Dual Citizenship sa ilalim ng Konsulado Heneral ng Sydney mula 2003 hanggang 2008 at ang naging pagtugon ng komunidad ng mga Pilipino sa lugar ng New South Wales at New Caledonia. Makikita na sa kabila ng mga naging hamon sa implementasyon nito, naging bukas ang pagtanggap ng komunidad sa kambal na batas na ito, isang patunay sa pagnanais na patuloy na pagtibayin ng mga lokal na komunidad ang kanilang ugnayan sa Pilipinas.
Kasama rin sa artikulong ito ang Introduksyon sa tomo ng editor na si Atoy Navarro.
Lumabas sa Pantayong Pananaw: Pagyabong ng Talastasan (Quezon City: BAKAS, 2015).
This essay analyzes the circumstances behind the creation and the content of the Philippine Opium... more This essay analyzes the circumstances behind the creation and the content of the Philippine Opium Report of 1905, a document that laid a crucial foundation in the narrative of the origin of the global "war against drugs" policy. This study argues that the Filipino elite who collaborated in the Report's creation helped and actively shaped this policy by highlighting descriptions of runaway opium use in the Philippines. In the process, they also provided a glimpse into the opium consumer's world at the turn of the 20th century. This essay appeared in Towards a Filipino History: A Festschrift for Zeus A. Salazar. Portia Reyes, ed. (Quezon City: BAKAS, 2015). 88-156.
This is a brief discussion on the history and composition of the resource persons and data obtain... more This is a brief discussion on the history and composition of the resource persons and data obtained towards the writing of the 1905 Philippine Opium Report. A majority of the resource persons and data obtained and used in the Report were from the Visayas region of Central Philippines. A more detailed treatment of the Opium Report is found in "The Most Humane of Any that Could be Adopted: The Philippine Opium Committee Report and the Imagining of the Opium Consumer’s World in the Colonial Philippines, 1903-1905." In Towards a Filipino History: A Festschrift for Zeus A. Salazar. Portia Reyes, ed. (Quezon City: BAKAS, 2015) 88-156. This article appeared in
Panahon ng Transisyon at Krisis ng Lipunan at Kalinangan ng Kapilipinuhan (1890-1913); Huling Baytang ng “Pagkabuo ng Bayan (1588-1913),” Pangalawang Bahagi ng Kasaysayan ng Kapilipinuhan (500,000/250,000 BK-2015 MK). (Quezon City: BAKAS, 2015). 412-427
Journal articles by Ferdinand Philip F Victoria
Chinese Studies Journal, 2023
This study examines the effects of the 1896 Revolution on opium revenue farming business in the P... more This study examines the effects of the 1896 Revolution on opium revenue farming business in the Philippines-a concession granted by the Spanish regime for the restricted sale and consumption of opium to the ethnic Chinese. Using the Anfión files from the National Archives of the Philippines and the Philippine Revolutionary Records, it argues that the damage inflicted in several conflict areas in 1896 led to a reconfiguration of the opium business' power structure, as this provided opportunities for other Chinese individuals to wrest control of the business previously held by more prominent contractors. The resumption of hostilities and the American intervention further complicated the situation as rival regimes vied for control of the opium traffic within the colony. Finally, the nascent Philippine Republic also embarked on an attempt to profit from the traffic amid a war of independence against the United States. This article explores the dynamics of the opium business during this chaotic period and how the ethnic Chinese contested, negotiated, and adapted to the challenges that confronted them.
Kaningningan, 2022
Layunin ng pag-aaral na ito ang talakayin ang mga kontemporaryong pagtingin tungkol kay Jose Riza... more Layunin ng pag-aaral na ito ang talakayin ang mga kontemporaryong pagtingin tungkol kay Jose Rizal ng mga manunulat at iskolar na Indones. Mula sa pagsipat na isinagawa gamit ang mga online na batis, masasabi na ang kasalukuyang antas ng kontemporaryong iskolarsyip tungkol kay Rizal sa Indonesia ay limitado lamang. Gayunpaman, nananatili pa rin ang kasalukuyang interes kay Rizal mula sa Indonesia dahil sa pagkakilanlan sa mga tagapamagitang iskolar o mula sa larangan ng diplomatikong ugnayan. Bibigyang pansin ng artikulo ang mga naturang pag-aaral na ito at tatalakayin ang posibilidad ng pagyabong ng bagong talastasan tungkol kay Rizal at ugnayang Pilipinas-Indonesia sa hinaharap.
Jurnal Sejarah, 2020
Noted biographers of the Indonesian nationalist Tan Malaka (1897-1949) such as Helen Jarvis and H... more Noted biographers of the Indonesian nationalist Tan Malaka (1897-1949) such as Helen Jarvis and Harry Poeze have described his sojourn in China from 1928 to 1932 as a lacuna since there is a dearth of direct information about his political activity. The gap is evident in his autobiography Dari Penjara ke Penjara, which Poeze claims is a deliberate attempt to cover his reconciliation with the Comintern.
Three pieces of correspondence from the Philippine President Manuel L. Quezon Papers located at the National Library of the Philippines helps to shed some light about Tan Malaka’s activity. The letters reveal that at least around April and May 1928, Tan Malaka made attempts through his Filipino contacts to re-establish direct correspondence with Quezon, who sympathized with him during the deportation proceedings. In his main letter, Malaka offers his support for Quezon’s leadership in the aftermath of the latter’s opposition against the recently-deceased American Governor-General Leonard Wood. He then presents an analysis and vision for a pan-Malayan union and explains how this can fit in with the nationalist sentiments of the colonized peoples. However, it is also notable that the ideas expressed in this communication appear to have been motivated and overshadowed by a desire to enlist Quezon’s support for his re-entry to the Philippines.
This is an expanded and revised version of a paper presented at the Malay World Conference held at De La Salle University Manila on September 2017.
Saliksik, 2018
This article aims to explain the context behind Jose Rizal's references to opium and opium use wi... more This article aims to explain the context behind Jose Rizal's references to opium and opium use within the Noli and Fili and their connections with the development of opium policy in the Philippines. Viewed through this lens, it is argued that Rizal's references to it formed a critique of the colonial administration's policy of limited legalization of opium, which was viewed as a hallmark of imperial modernity, a pathway towards financial solvency and a best practice adopted by Southeast Asian regimes in the nineteenth century. This exploration hopes to add towards a better appreciation of Rizal's novels as a form of sociopolitical commentary.
This article is written in Filipino and published in Saliksik e-journal, vol.7, issue 1 (February 2018), pages 133-191 as part of a Festschrift for Prof. Nilo Ocampo, a Rizal scholar.
You may access the article through this link:
https://ejournals.ph/issue.php?id=1117
Historical Bulletin, 2017
A revised and updated version of a 2016 Philippine Historical Association (PHA) conference paper.... more A revised and updated version of a 2016 Philippine Historical Association (PHA) conference paper.
As the flame of the 1896 Philippine Revolution was engulfing the island of Luzon, a small party of Revenue Inspectors of the Spanish colonial government was busy conducting its inquiry regarding a blatant violation of the terms by the current contractor of the Iloilo-Antique opium franchise. However, it was not so much as the nature of violation that stood out but rather the response it generated from the central government that reflected the inherent weaknesses of outsourcing such ventures by the nineteenth-century colonial state.
The focus of this article is to situate the 1896 findings within the larger context of the privately-run opium contracting system in the late Spanish Philippines. It argues that although the monopoly was usually a lucrative venture for contractors, one contributing factor in its success as a business venture was the laxity in the implementation of the rules regarding the contract system of the Spanish colonial government. The goal of this analysis is similar to what historian Ashley Wright argues in her study of the opium regime in British Burma, "to obtain a better understanding of the nature of the relationship between opium regulation and the exercise of imperial power ". The clash of views between the colonial officials and the outgoing opium contractor in the case of the Iloilo-Antique franchise offers an interesting case study of how power was contested and renegotiated by both sides over the consumption of a substance that assured a steady revenue stream for Spain during its years of decline in the Philippines.
The article is an attempt to survey the historical literature and other forms of media on the Ind... more The article is an attempt to survey the historical literature and other forms of media on the Indonesian nationalist and radical Tan Malaka (1897-1949) from 2010 to 2014. While there is no new primary research introduced apart from reinterpretations of Harry Poeze's authoritative study, Tan Malaka's legacy appears to be in the process of rehabilitation from a communist outcast towards the open-minded Marxist nationalist. This reframing of the narrative on Malaka is not without its detractors though- proof that Malaka's legacy is still controversial. This article has now appeared in the Salaysay e-journal's November 2015 issue, pages 55-88. (In Filipino/Tagalog)
For more articles on the ASEAN Issue, the Open Access Salaysay E-Journal link is:
http://www.bagongkasaysayan.org/saliksik/?p=541
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Newspaper articles by Ferdinand Philip F Victoria
A more detailed analysis of the report has appeared in "The Most Humane of Any that Could be Adopted: The Philippine Opium Committee Report and the Imagining of the Opium Consumer’s World in the Colonial Philippines, 1903-1905." In Towards a Filipino History: A Festschrift for Zeus A. Salazar. Portia Reyes, ed. (Quezon City: BAKAS, 2015). 88-156.
Book chapters by Ferdinand Philip F Victoria
Kasama rin sa artikulong ito ang Introduksyon sa tomo ng editor na si Atoy Navarro.
Lumabas sa Pantayong Pananaw: Pagyabong ng Talastasan (Quezon City: BAKAS, 2015).
Panahon ng Transisyon at Krisis ng Lipunan at Kalinangan ng Kapilipinuhan (1890-1913); Huling Baytang ng “Pagkabuo ng Bayan (1588-1913),” Pangalawang Bahagi ng Kasaysayan ng Kapilipinuhan (500,000/250,000 BK-2015 MK). (Quezon City: BAKAS, 2015). 412-427
Journal articles by Ferdinand Philip F Victoria
Three pieces of correspondence from the Philippine President Manuel L. Quezon Papers located at the National Library of the Philippines helps to shed some light about Tan Malaka’s activity. The letters reveal that at least around April and May 1928, Tan Malaka made attempts through his Filipino contacts to re-establish direct correspondence with Quezon, who sympathized with him during the deportation proceedings. In his main letter, Malaka offers his support for Quezon’s leadership in the aftermath of the latter’s opposition against the recently-deceased American Governor-General Leonard Wood. He then presents an analysis and vision for a pan-Malayan union and explains how this can fit in with the nationalist sentiments of the colonized peoples. However, it is also notable that the ideas expressed in this communication appear to have been motivated and overshadowed by a desire to enlist Quezon’s support for his re-entry to the Philippines.
This is an expanded and revised version of a paper presented at the Malay World Conference held at De La Salle University Manila on September 2017.
This article is written in Filipino and published in Saliksik e-journal, vol.7, issue 1 (February 2018), pages 133-191 as part of a Festschrift for Prof. Nilo Ocampo, a Rizal scholar.
You may access the article through this link:
https://ejournals.ph/issue.php?id=1117
As the flame of the 1896 Philippine Revolution was engulfing the island of Luzon, a small party of Revenue Inspectors of the Spanish colonial government was busy conducting its inquiry regarding a blatant violation of the terms by the current contractor of the Iloilo-Antique opium franchise. However, it was not so much as the nature of violation that stood out but rather the response it generated from the central government that reflected the inherent weaknesses of outsourcing such ventures by the nineteenth-century colonial state.
The focus of this article is to situate the 1896 findings within the larger context of the privately-run opium contracting system in the late Spanish Philippines. It argues that although the monopoly was usually a lucrative venture for contractors, one contributing factor in its success as a business venture was the laxity in the implementation of the rules regarding the contract system of the Spanish colonial government. The goal of this analysis is similar to what historian Ashley Wright argues in her study of the opium regime in British Burma, "to obtain a better understanding of the nature of the relationship between opium regulation and the exercise of imperial power ". The clash of views between the colonial officials and the outgoing opium contractor in the case of the Iloilo-Antique franchise offers an interesting case study of how power was contested and renegotiated by both sides over the consumption of a substance that assured a steady revenue stream for Spain during its years of decline in the Philippines.
For more articles on the ASEAN Issue, the Open Access Salaysay E-Journal link is:
http://www.bagongkasaysayan.org/saliksik/?p=541