Kaohsiung (高雄) in southern Taiwan is a city of interesting contrasts, even contradictions. Its name translates to “high hero,” although its original name is decidedly less noble – “打狗 beating the dog.” It is Taiwan’s largest port and third largest city with its share of skyscrapers, but the city’s focal point is the Love River […]
A massive military parade in Beijing marked the 70th anniversary of the founding of People’s Republic of China. As well, a grand display of achievements was at the Beijing Exhibition Center to mark milestones in China’s modern history. The 15,500-square-meter exhibition space is shaped like a time tunnel, chronicling historic events and symbolic people and […]
I had the rare opportunity to teach for one school year in 1985-86 at the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics as a visiting professor. I was invited to teach something unfamiliar to both students and faculty at that time: Western Economics. I consider this one-year stint a very significant experience. I have since looked […]
Lin Lan Ying (林蘭英) was born in 1918 in Pu Tian (莆田) City, Fujian province. She was in the United States pursuing a Ph.D. in mathematics at Dickenson University in 1949 when news of the birth of New China reached her. Lin was eager to return to China to help build the nation but decided […]
China was brought to its knees by the imperial powers more than a century ago. But slowly, it has restored and restructured social order, reconstructed and rebuilt infrastructure, reinvigorated and redirected the national spirit to achieve swift and unprecedented growth and development. Thus, China has great reasons to celebrate, and it did. On Oct. 1, […]
Kaisa Para Sa Kaunlaran Inc. and the Philippine Association of Chinese Studies, in cooperation with the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Miriam College, are sponsoring the “International Conference on the State of Scholarship on the Chinese in the Philippines: Problems, Perspectives, and Possibilities,” to be held at Miriam College in Quezon City on Jan. 10 […]
Hokkien, on the tongues of Tsinoys, has grown and evolved, taking on a life of its own. Sometimes words simply fail us. With some creativity, Tsinoys have strung together words to form colorful phrases that simply hit the bull’s eye. Here are some expressions unique to Hokkien as favored by Tsinoys. Idioms, expressions Hokkien pronunciation […]
Oct. 1 is the International Day of the Elderly, and the Oct. 1-7 week has been declared as the Week of the Filipino Elderly. This annual celebration is held to recognize the past, present and future contributions of our senior citizens for the progress of our country and society. In the Philippines today, there are […]
Hokkien, on the tongues of Tsinoys, has grown and evolved, taking on a life of its own. Sometimes words simply fail us. With some creativity, Tsinoys have strung together words to form colorful phrases that simply hit the bull’s eye. Here are some expressions unique to Hokkien as favored by Tsinoys. Idioms, expressions Hokkien pronunciation […]
‘Jose Rizal’ and ‘food’ are not words most people would normally associate with each other. And yet food plays a big part in Rizal’s novels, as well as in his life. The Rizal Shrine in Calamba, Laguna, is a replica of the Rizal ancestral house, where the national hero was born and lived until he […]