Mariano Bonialian, Ph.D. (2010), Centro de Estudios Históricos, El Colegio de México, is a researcher at CONICET (Argentina’s National Scientific and Technical Research Council). He has published books and articles, including La América española: entre el Pacífico y el Atlántico. Globalización mercantil y economía política 1580-1840 (COLMEX, 2019).

• List of Figures and Tables“Let the jijenes Get Out; the sancudos Are Coming”1 The Transpacific Universe: More than a Galleon1 Ships and Expeditions2 Peru and the Transpacific Trade3 From the Public to the Private2 Transpacific Peruvian Agency and the Splendor of Potosí1 Agency and Networks2 The Peruleros: Global Actors and Collective3 Networks and the Law: Local Legitimacy versus Royal Legislation4 The Cerro Rico de Potosí Boom5 Silk, Ivory, and Tortoise Shell Combs: Asian Objects in Peru3 Expeditions between Peru and China 1580–15911 Precedent. The Realejo Shipyard and the Dream of Reaching China2 The Initiative. Letter from Gonzalo Ronquillo to Viceroy Francisco de Toledo and the Ship Nuestra Señora de la Cinta3 Juan de Solís’ Peruvian Ship Headed to Canton and Japan4 Rodrigo de Córdoba and Viceroy Cañete’s Ship5 Nuestra Señora del Rosario to China and the East Indies4 Peruvian Networks in Acapulco, Mexico, and the Philippines, 1586 and 16131 Viceroys’ Testimonies and Agency2 Álvaro de Castrillo, Royal Notary, and the Acapulco Port Records3 Francisco Tello de Guzmán, Governor of the Philippines4 Peruleros, the Potosinean Silver and the Philippines pancada5 Tomé Ruiz, from Notary Public to Merchant6 Merchants of Peru7 Agustín de San Pedro y Aguilar8 Juan de Segura Soltero9 Diego Núñez de Campoverde10 Francisco de Mansilla Marroquí, Depositary of Lima11 Gerónimo Justo de Porras12 Bernardo Venegas de Vergara5 Spanish-American Crossings through Europe-Asia: an Enigma1 Peru: an Aspirational Self-Sufficient Market2 New Spanish Expeditions vs the Portuguese in AsiaEpilogue: the Dutch and the Transpacific Geopolitical Map at the Beginning of the Seventeenth CenturyDocumentary AppendixBibliographyIndex