“When future generations look back to my time, it will probably be similar to how I now think of the past.” Wang Xizhi Preface to the Poems Composed at the Orchid Pavilion (Lantingji Xu) 353 CE The Orchid Pavilion, the first of Navarroza’s trilogy of exhibitions, considers the exchanges and acculturations that accompanied the movement of people and objects through the Philippines before and during the centuries of the Manila Galleon trade.