The most comprehensive bibliography of Filipino novels compiled so far, this book lists novels in Tagalog (Filipino), Tagalog (Filipino) translation, and English published in the Philippines during the twentieth century.

This pioneering work spans more than four centuries of publishing, from 1593, when the first book was printed in the country, to 2003, when the first nationwide survey on reading attitudes and preference was conducted.

"The Golden dagger revolves around Dalisay, a beautiful woman from the barrio, and the interconnected series of tragedies that befall her. The novel depicts her slow but almost inexorable descent into madness as she loses her sweetheart, her only means of livelihood, her mother, and her son due to the machinations of Don Sergio, the powerful father of her faithless sweetheart. She seeks to exact revenge but is eventually defeated by the conspiracy of forces around her. This novel is a gritty delineation of love determined by insidious sociopolitical forces reflective of the tensions in Philippine society in the 1930s. "--Page 4 of cover.

Between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, competing European empires, notably Spain, Portugal, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Germany, France, Belgium, and others vied for commercial and political control of transoceanic networks, particularly the transpacific routes between Asia and the Americas. The essays in Transpacific Engagements: Trade, Translation, and Visual Culture of Entangled Empires (1565–1898) address the resulting cultural and artistic exchanges with an emphasis on both the Spanish and American enterprises in the Asia-Pacific region. The essays are grouped into three parts entitled “Entangled Empires,” “Empires and Translations,” and “Empires and Trade.” A common thread in the diverse perspectives presented here is the importance of transpacific engagements to the global connections of the sixteenth century and beyond. While the focus is on the specific connection between the Asia-Pacific region and the Americas through the Philippines, we see how other parts of the world, notably South and Southeast Asia and Europe, were also participants impacted by these transpacific linkages. The goal is to convey the complexity of entangled networks of commercial, political, and religious interests that complicate the Spanish enterprise in the Pacific. Commercial ventures into Canton and Manila by the early American republic, for example, overlapped with and later replaced the Spanish galleons. East, South, and Southeast Asian polities and dynasties remained powerful players in what were often multilateral, rather than bilateral, exchanges. Contributors to this volume are based in Asia, the Americas, and Europe.

Essays on the book publishing and industry in the Philippines.