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Tradition and Change: Marriage, family and patriarchy

Post author By Theresa C. Cariño
Post date August 19, 2022

First published in Tulay Monthly, Chinese-Filipino Digest 1, no. 4 (September 11, 1988): 10. Part II As a result of higher education and closer contact with Filipino and Western values, younger generations of ethnic Chinese women have rising expectations of sexual equality. Unlike their mothers, they complain today of sexual discrimination outside of the home […]

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Tradition and change: Chinese women in Manila (1)

Post author By Theresa C. Cariño
Post date August 17, 2022

First published in Tulay, Chinese-Filipino Digest 1, no. 3 (August 1988): 10. The history of Chinese women in Southeast Asia has been a recent one. Most of the early Chinese who came to the Philippines were traders or laborers who left their wives and families in China. Thus, even as late as 1903, there were […]

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