Permanyer Ugartemendia, Ander

BA in Humanities (UPF, 2002) and in East Asian Studies (UAB-UPF, 2004), PhD in History from the IUHJVV (UPF, 2013). He has been a visiting researcher at the Department of History, University of Chicago (2015), the Institute of Contemporary History, Academia Sinica, Taipei (2019), and the John Carter Brown Library, Brown University (2020). He was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, Taiwan (2018-19) and also received the Ramón Carande Prize for Young Researchers in Economic History (2013). He has taught Asian and global history at UPF, UOC, and the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

His research focuses on Hispanic trade in East Asia, specifically between China and the Philippines, in one of its most unknown periods, that is, in the transition from the eighteenth to the nineteenth centuries. In so doing, his analysis elucidates the transformations that took place in the Philippine economy and trans-Pacific trade, and specifically the Spanish contribution to the Canton trade, in which the Royal Philippine Company (Real Compañía de Filipinas) and the merchants of Manila played a particularly important role. Of particular relevance is his work on the Spanish opium trade in China in the early nineteenth century, which developed thanks to collaboration with British companies in the sector and the financing of Manila merchants.