Nathan Gilbert Quimpo, a longtime political activist in the Philippines, is an associate professor of political science and international relations at the University of Tsukuba, Japan. He is the author of Contested Democracy and the Left in the Philippines after Marcos.
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Subversive Lives
A Family Memoir of the Marcos Years
By Susan F. Quimpo and Nathan Gilbert Quimpo
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Foreword by Vicente L. Rafael
From the 1960s to the 1990s, seven members of the Quimpo family dedicated themselves to the anti-Marcos resistance in the Philippines, sometimes at profound personal cost. In this unprecedented memoir, eight siblings (plus one by marriage) tell their remarkable stories in individually authored chapters that comprise a family saga of revolution, persistence, and, ultimately, vindication, even as easy resolution eluded their struggles.Subversive
