{"id":249390,"date":"2020-03-21T05:11:59","date_gmt":"2020-03-21T09:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=249390"},"modified":"2020-03-21T05:11:59","modified_gmt":"2020-03-21T09:11:59","slug":"china-expert-up-prof-aileen-baviera-dies-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/03\/21\/china-expert-up-prof-aileen-baviera-dies-of-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"China expert, UP prof Aileen Baviera dies of Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_248892\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-248892\" style=\"width: 1920px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/three-face-masks-3786131-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-248892\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/three-face-masks-3786131-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2880\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/three-face-masks-3786131-1.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/three-face-masks-3786131-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/three-face-masks-3786131-1-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/three-face-masks-3786131-1-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-248892\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In a bulletin, UP Diliman said Baviera died at the San Lazaro Hospital at 3:55 a.m. on Saturday. (Pexels photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Dr. Aileen Baviera, a leading Chinese studies expert and former dean of the University of the Philippines (UP) Asian Center has passed away due to severe pneumonia caused by the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19). She was 60.<\/p>\n<p>In a bulletin, UP Diliman said Baviera died at the San Lazaro Hospital at 3:55 a.m. on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is with deep sadness that we inform you that Dr. Aileen SP Baviera, Professor and former Dean of the UP Asian Center and one of the country&#8217;s foremost sinologists, passed away today, March 21, 2020, 3:55 a.m., at the San Lazaro Hospital from severe pneumonia caused by Covid-19,&#8221; the bulletin read.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our prayers and sympathies are with the family of Dean Baviera,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n<p>Baviera was an expert on contemporary China studies, Asia-Pacific security, territorial and maritime disputes, as well as regional integration.<\/p>\n<p>Among her published works are the books Regional Security in East Asia: Challenges to Cooperation and Community Building, and the Comprehensive Engagement: Strategic Issues in Philippine-China Relations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 Dr. Aileen Baviera, a leading Chinese studies expert and former dean of the University of the Philippines (UP) Asian &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":248892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-joyce-ann-l-rocamora","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249391,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249390\/revisions\/249391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}