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Article: The Katipunan and the Revolution: Memoirs of a General with the Original Tagalog Text.
- Article from:
- Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
- Article date:
- September 1, 1997
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This book is a very important work and the publication by the Ateneo de Manila University Press is very timely because of the celebration of the Centennials of the Philippine Revolution and the Declaration of Philippine Independence (1996-98). The Tagalog text of General Alvarez's memoirs was serialized in thirty-six installments, from July 24, 1927 to April 15, 1928, in the Tagalog weekly, Sampagita, and which up until this present publication has not been readily available to researchers. The volume published by Ateneo comes in its original Tagalog, which is as faithful as possible (with a few "silent corrections", in the words of the publisher) to the edition that ...