Mu-Kien Adriana Sang Ben (born 8 September 1955) is a historian, essayist, analyst, political scientist and academic from the

Dominican Republic The Dominican Republic ( ; es, República Dominicana, ) is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean region. It occupies the eastern five-eighths of the island, which it shares with ...

. Sang is Vice-Rector of the Madre y Maestra Pontifical Catholic University. The daughter of a

Cantonese Cantonese ( zh, t=廣東話, s=广东话, first=t, cy=Gwóngdūng wá) is a language within the Chinese (Sinitic) branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages originating from the city of Guangzhou (historically known as Canton) and its surrounding ar ...

immigrant man, and a Dominican-born woman whose father was a Chinese immigrant and her mother was Mulatto (of African and European descent). Sang has a degree in Teaching ''Summa Cum Laude'' in the ''

Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra The Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra ''(Mother and Teacher Pontifical Catholic University)'', named after Pope John XXIII's encyclical ''Mater et magistra'', which means ''Mother and Teacher'', (PUCMM for its Spanish acronym), i ...

'', where she has taught for more than two decades. She did her graduate degree in Adult Education in the '' Centro de Cooperación Regional para la Educación de Adultos de América Latina y el Caribe'' (CREFAL) in 1978, in

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. In 1985 she achieved his PhD in History and Civilization at the ''

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'' in

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. She translated from French to Spanish the work ''Correspondence of the Consul of France in Santo Domingo'', published in two volumes under the sponsorship of the official Sesquicentennial Commission of National Independence. She has been a guest professor and public speaker at several universities in different nations. In 2006, a street was named in her honor at the Plaza of Culture Juan Pablo Duarte, host of the International Book Fair of Santo Domingo. Her husband, Rafael Toribio, has been rector of the

Santo Domingo Institute of Technology Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo —or Santo Domingo Institute of Technology (also known as INTEC), is a private university located in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. It was founded on October 9, 1972, by a group of connoted professional ...

(INTEC).

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* Articles written by Mu-Kien Adriana Sang o
El Caribe
* Biography of Mu-Kien Adriana Sang o

* Biography of Mu-Kien Adriana Sang o

Mu-Kien Sang Ben dona su biblioteca a la PUCMM

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