This is the "Traditional Chinese" version of An Interpretive History of the Valiant Chinese in America written by the author. It is a thoughtful interpretation, rather than a simple narration, of the Chinese both as a group of immigrants and as a minority from Asia seeking for a better tomorrow in the land of the United States. It reveals the hardships and the uncommon encountering of the early arrivals, and explains the processes and changes that they had endured for survival. Besides describing most of the harsh experiences and the hard earned respects along a lengthy path of struggles, the author also provides, or attempts to give, a comprehensive insight on events that unfairly happened to all the Chinese, and most conditions did not improve until they as a downgraded race have been lawfully recognized and cordially accepted as citizens with the basic sharing of rights like the others. Needless to say, this book recounts the different stages of the Chinese difficulties and struggles from the past to the present, before they could gradually ascend as a whole. However, in examining issues regarding discrimination and other injustice, it ventures to cover not only the historical facts of how-things-happened, but also explores the interrelated causes of why-things-happened. Another distinctive feature of this book was the focus of the main story line of the valiant group among the Chinese immigrants in the 20th century as well as among the Chinese-Americans, who initially started to explore ways to change the fate for themselves and for their motherland, i.e., China, especially the efforts they made since the Second World War and thereafter. A major differentiation of itself from a number of similar books on subject of the history of the Chinese in USA, interestingly, is that it reveals the often untold mystery of motivation and confrontation among the Chinese with regard to their views on Chinese politics being debated for support in cities of the United States, and that remained a strangely ongoing phenomena which appeared from day to day in many of Chinese communities; if grouped by status of identities, those involved in the rift were immigrants old and new, sometimes included foreign students from either Taiwan or Hong Kong, and joined by Chinese-Americans by birth or citizens of those who might have legally claimed US citizenship through their own merits. It was an unending fight with polemics among Chinese outside of China. Yet, for whatever intention, a general picture of the crawls showed that whoever took part in such an effort more or less would all entangle themselves with issues uncompromising between the KMT and the CCP of the Chinese politics, which played out aboard in their communal arena. Therefore, to elaborate and discuss that, topics related to events in the United States, in Taiwan, and in the mainland of China are reviewed. As for the bravery of the so-called "valiant," it is understandably meant to refer to those who had dared to fight against injustice, dared to pursue their ideal, and dared to take action. In short, it is also a metaphor to honor those who fit such a meaning in the long struggle of improving the status for all the Chinese in America, since this book is about all of them who came to USA in seeking dreams as a start, and for whose who stride along as descendants of the early forefathers; no matter immigrants or citizens they might be, they all need something called "courage." It is always the braves who took the leads and this book is dedicated to the innovative spirit of such few.
Hanson Chan, writer of Chinese novels and screenplays, was born in Taishan, Guangdong Province, China. He grew up in Hong Kong, migrated to America while he was a teenage, and received his Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of Maryland and his Master's in Asian Studies from Seton Hall University in USA. He was a reporter, editor, and feature columnist for several Chinese newspapers in Hong Kong as well as in New York City. In terms of his early activity in the Chinese community, he had been known and highly respected for his major role in helping the re-publication of the China Daily News in the 70's in New York City and the establishing of its branch in San Francisco, after it had been reduced to almost a weekly for more than a decade. He was also recognized as an organizer in the civil rights movement among the Chinese-Americans, especially for issues of patient rights in health care and outreach programs of the community services of the Gouverneur Hospital when it was still a fully medical institution. As a writer, he is credited for his many famous martial arts screenplays: "Swordsman II," "Once Upon a Time in China II, III, IV," and a series of action novels on Chinese martial arts, "Hua Hu, Book I: The Forbidden Scripture; Hua Hu, Book II: The Thunder Spell." His best-known literary work, Chinese History Made Easy (now available both in Chinese and in English), was originally published in Simplified Chinese in 2008, and then its second edition in 2011 by Xinhua Publishing in Beijing, China. Currently, a fully translated English edition is also available at Amazon.com. He lives with his wife, Lan, in the Pocono Mountains in Pennsylvania, USA.
