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Leona Florentino (1849-1884) was an Ilocano poetess who apparently composed works in Spanish and Ilocano. She was the mother of the intellectual Isabelo de los Reyes (1864-1938), who in his work El folklore filipino (1889) included as an appendix…

Citing agency sources dated in Lisbon, this brief article describes anti-Sinitic attitudes and practices in the United States. Specifically, it reports the denial of the right to burial of Tom Chan, a member of the Chungking (Chongqing) People’s…

La Vanguardia was the Spanish-speaking diary of the Roces group, which also owned The Tribune. Forcefully sold to the Japanese, it served during the Japanese occupation as a propaganda tool. In one of its latest numbers, on 20 October 1944, La…

Literary awards were an important way of promoting literature in the Philippines during the 20th century. It is said that the Filipino poet Jesús Balmori won the first three prizes in the contest organized to celebrate "Rizal's day" in 1908 and that…