Jaime florcruz biography

By a strange quirk of fate, I stayed on and, 36 years later, I'm still here. Through the years, I have had some very interesting experiences in China. InI planted rice, picked tea leaves and fed pigs in a farm in Hunan Province. Jaime A. FlorCruz: A life that became a priceless material for a book—as memoir, primer on Chinese history and politics, as excellent example of journalism and storytelling.

China Chinese studies Cultural Revolution. About author Neni Sta. Romana Cruz Articles Neni Sta. Romana Cruz [email protected] is founding director of the creative writing center, Write Things, and was former chair of the National Book Development Board. Previous Article. August 1, Next Article. Newsletter Sign up for our Newsletter Sign up for Diarist.

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Jaime florcruz biography

Non-necessary Non-necessary. Close this module Subscribe. Dec 7, Categories : births Living people 20th-century Filipino writers 20th-century Filipino journalists 21st-century Filipino writers 21st-century journalists 21st-century male writers 21st-century memoirists Ambassadors of the Philippines to China CNN people Filipino expatriates in China Filipino male writers Peking University alumni Writers from Bulacan Filipino television journalists Filipino expatriates in the United States.

Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata Date of birth not in Wikidata. Toggle the table of contents. Jaime FlorCruz. FlorCruz in Assumed office February 24, Bongbong Marcos. Jose Santiago Santa Romana. Among his schoolmates were the current Premier Le Keqiang, and politician Bo Xilai who rose to be minister of Commerce, but was later jailed.

There were many other schoolmates who became prominent entrepreneurs, dissidents and scientists, such as Wang Juntao, a whiz nuclear physicist who was unfortunately jailed and exiled to the U. According to Jimi, his unexpected long stay and studies in China eventually opened opportunities for him to assume positions in journalism. Jimi was the editor of the school newsletter at the Philippine College of Commerce when he left Manila.

Listening to Jimi gives one a ringside view of the massive changes that unfolded in the post-Mao era.