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Jaime A. FlorCruz will be joining us from Manila. Please take note that to accommodate the time difference, his China Seminar talk is scheduled for 2:00 p.m. HST.
Jaime A. FlorCruz is an adjunct professor at Peking University and a veteran China-watcher.
He was CNN’s Beijing Bureau Chief and correspondent, responsible for strategic planning of the network’s news coverage of China (2001-2014). He served as TIME Magazine’s Beijing Bureau Chief and correspondent (1982-2000) and Newsweek’s Beijing reporter (1981).
Jaime ( Jimi ) FlorCruz, born in the Philippines, was a vocal anti-Marcos activist during his college days and in 1971 he traveled to the People’s Republic of China on a study tour. His three-week tour unexpectedly turned into an open-ended period of political exile in China.
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Marivi Soliven Blanco, a San Diego-based award-winning author, often draws inspiration for her writings from her 20-year job as a Tagalog-English telephonic interpreter.
Most calls pre-pandemic were regarding car loans, bankruptcy, immigration hearings and domestic violence. However, during the pandemic the calls focused more on unemployment, divorce court and hospital requested end of life interpretation for Filipino patients who had little, if any, chance of recovery.
“They cling to the voice on the phone,” Soliven Blanco said. “I infuse words like
Ate to bring them a feeling of familiarity during the difficult time. They put so much trust in the voice on the other side of the phone at the moment of duress.”