Editing History of the Philippines (section)

=== Visayan belligerence against Imperial China ===

Writing in the 13th century, the Chinese historian [[Zhao Rukuo|Chao Ju-Kua]] mentioned raids conducted by the ''Pi-sho-ye'' on the port cities of southern China between A.D. 1174–1190, which he believed came by way of the southern portion of the island of [[Taiwan]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Isorena |first1=Efren B. |title=The Visayan Raiders of the China Coast, 1174–1190 Ad |journal=Philippine Quarterly of Culture and Society |date=2004 |volume=32 |issue=2 |pages=73–95 |jstor=29792550 |quote=Chau Ju-Kua, writing in the thirteenth century, probably was the first to mention that certain ferocious raiders of China's Fukien coast probably came by way of the southern portion of the island of Formosa, He referred to them as the Pi-sho-ye. }}</ref> Subsequent historians identified these raiders as Visayans from the [[Visayas]] islands while the historian Efren B. Isorena, through analysis of historical accounts and wind currents in the Pacific side of East and Southeast Asia, concluded that said raiders were most likely the people of Ibabao (the precolonial name for the eastern coast and a portion of the northern coast of Samar).<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Isorena |first1=Efren B. |title=The Visayan Raiders of the China Coast, 1174–1190 Ad |journal=Philippine Quarterly of Culture and Society |date=2004 |volume=32 |issue=2 |pages=73–95 |jstor=29792550 }}</ref>