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As a result of longstanding influence from the ROC Ministry of Education of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Council of the Republic of China (Taiwan) since the early 1900s up to 2000, the Mandarin variant (known in many schools in Hokkien Chinese: 國語; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kok-gí) taught and spoken in many older Chinese Filipino schools in the ...
Mariano Ching is a Chinese–Filipino ... influenced by the anime Mazinger Z and ... to the development of children's literature in the Philippines. [3] ...
[1] [2] Philippine literature encompasses literary media written in various local languages as well as in Spanish and English. According to journalist Nena Jimenez, the most common and consistent element of Philippine literature is its short and quick yet highly interpersonal sentences, with themes of family, dogmatic love, and persistence. [3]
The culture of the Philippines is characterized by cultural and ethnic diversity. [1] Although the multiple ethnic groups of the Philippine archipelago have only recently established a shared Filipino national identity, [2] their cultures were all shaped by the geography and history of the region, [3] [4] and by centuries of interaction with neighboring cultures, and colonial powers.
Biag ni Lam-ang (lit. ' The Life of Lam-ang ') is an epic story of the Ilocano people from the Ilocos region of the Philippines.It is notable for being the first Philippine folk epic to be recorded in written form, and was one of only two folk epics documented during the Philippines' Spanish Colonial period, along with the Bicolano epic of Handiong.
Chinese dragons, legendary creatures in Sinosphere mythology and culture. The Sinosphere, [1] also known as the Chinese cultural sphere, [2] East Asian cultural sphere, [3] or the Sinic world, [4] encompasses multiple countries in East Asia and Southeast Asia that were historically heavily influenced by Chinese culture.
Although the modern Philippines does not have a huge majority or minority of Ethnic Malays today, (Filipinos who identified as Ethnic Malay make up 0.2% of the total population), the descendants of Ethnic Malays have been assimilated into the wider related Austronesian Filipino culture, characterized by Chinese and Spanish influence, and Roman ...
Mandarin Chinese [a] [b] is the primary formal Chinese language taught academically to students in Chinese Filipino private schools (historically established by and meant for Chinese Filipinos) [4] and additionally across other private and public schools, universities, and institutions in the Philippines, [5] especially as the formal written Chinese language.