Tag: Mario Miclat

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China History

Why one China?  

First published in Tulay Monthly, Chinese-Filipino Digest 1, no. 7 (December 11, 1988): 12, 16. Introduced as a teacher of a graduate course on Contemporary China at the UP Asian Center, I was met with a blank stare which ‘seemed to suggest that I might as well go teach in a monastery. After lecturing to […]

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Culture

Learning my first Mandarin words

First published in Tulay Monthly, Chinese-Filipino Digest 1, no. 1 (June 1988): 6, 12. In the same manner as one “learns warfare through warfare,” you learn language by speaking it,” said our interpreter-guide, Comrade Zhang. “Now that you are in China,” he said, “you will learn Chinese.” Waving given such advice after we requested for […]