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By Robert EngCrusader’s Chronicle

Arranged Marriages EndForced Marriages a Thing of the Past

Here in America, the act of marrying is assumed as a given right or liberty, even protected by some laws. In other parts of the world however, arranged and forced marriages are part of deeply ingrained traditions only gradually now disintegrating in these modern times.

California resident Lindo Jong once lived in a household bound by an arranged marriage. She recounts, “I was just two years old. Nobody told me

A loud mob of students marches through the streets of Beijing, demanding that their government allow them more democratic rights. It is a precarious situation, with Chinese Red Army soldiers following the students to ensure

By Nicholas ChowCrusader’s Chronicle

Freedoms Expressed

Tiananmen Square Protests Gather Momentum

Something amazing is going on in Chinatown that you don’t

see Protests page 5

that the demonstrations do not get out of control. However, the students believe that their struggle will eventually result in a more politically free China.“In my university, we learned about the American political

see Marriage page 6

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In 293 the roman emperors Diocletian and Maximian appoint Galerius as Caesar. Much later, in 996, Otto III is crowned Holy Roman Emperor. A new British colony, New Zealand,was added in the year 1840. In 1851, Slavery is abolished in Colombia, South America before the United States. 20 years later, in 1871, French troops invade the Paris Commune and fighting ensues. By the end of the “bloody week” about 20,000 are killed. In 1881, The American Red Cross is founded by Clara Barton. A lighter topic, in

This day in history…By Graham Grant

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By Robert EngPolice Chief

Berg Larr Bell BurglarIdiom comes to life

Recently, a man of the name Berg Larr broke into the First Chinese Baptist Church wearing a ski mask and bearing a hammer. His initial goal was to steal something lightweight and easily carried out. Fortunately, all he could carry out were the bibles within the pews. Frustratedly, Mr. Larr then proceeded to steal the bell from the church but found it to be too large to carry. In an act of pure absurdity, Mr. Larr decided to break the bell into smaller pieces using the hammer he brought, alerting sleeping residents throughout Chinatown.

“I woke up to the sounds of the church bells at three in

the morning,” comments Chinatown resident An-mei Hsu.

After this loud awakening for many Chinatown residents, authorities were finally able to apprehend the musical thief. “I’m glad he was caught,” bellowed resident piano teacher Mr. Chong, “Although, he did make beautiful music!”

ideas of freedom of speech and press,” said Bei Renming. “We noticed that we do not get these sorts of rights in China.”Indeed, many of the students participating in these peaceful protests are from Beijing University, one of the nation’s heralded university. Ironically, most of these students are children of the

Communist elite, and are attempting to rid the government of the system run by their parents.“It’s true that our parents are the

As the protest movement grows ever stronger, different areas of China are also succumbing to the revolutionary tone. Small rural towns and large cities alike are being swayed by the talk of democracy in China.“I think that it will be great for China’s progress,” said factory worker Mao Zeting. “We need more rights for the common person in China.”However, not all individuals support this movement, including Communist Party official Zhao Ziyang.“I would say that I agree that China is in need to political reform,” said Zhao. “However, the Chinese government will crush these demonstrations ruthlessly if they are not stopped.”

Protests: Protesters fight for rights

ones mostly responsible for these rules,” said Zhang Weiyi, another Beijing University student. “But we need to make China greater by allowing the people greater freedoms.” A Student Protester

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this, I remember it all. It was summertime, very hot and dusty outside, and I could hear cicadas crying in the yard... In front of me were two ladies” (50). These two ladies Mrs. Jong recalls were her future mother-in-law and the village matchmaker. Seemingly archaic to today’s standards, the village matchmaker’s occupation was to interpret an individual’s Chinese

Marriage: Forced Marriages in China

consisted of “an earth horse for an an earth sheep. [The] best marriage combination” (50).

Little did Mrs. Jong know, her future husband would grow up to be “very spoiled.” Nevertheless, in such an arranged marriage Mrs. Jong admits, “even if I had known I was getting such a bad husband, I had no choice, now or later. That was how backward families in the country were. We were always

the last to give up stupid old-fashioned customs” (51).

Thankfully this story has a happy ending. After receiving numerous ominous signs from her husband’s ancestors, Lindo Jong would later separate from her husband’s household and emigrate to America to start a family with a husband she chose.

Lindo Jong

elements within them and their zodiac animal to find a suitable partnership. In Mrs. Jong’s case, this match

Matchmaker Techniques

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By Nicholas ChowCrusader’s Chronicle

Childhood Fame

Waverly Jong: Chess Champion

Jong said. “There’s no equal feeling in the entire world. Winning is the best feeling ever.” As a young girl living in Chinatown, Jong discovered her talent for chess at the age of ten. “My brothers got a used chess set as a gift, and then I learned to play chess,” Jong recalls. “Soon I began to beat them easily. Finally, I met a man at the park named Lau Po, and he taught me many new techniques and skills to win.” Jong was heralded as the next chess prodigy, the next Bobby Fischer. She easily swept through her competition and netted numerous trophies. She had a bright future, one that certainly would have allowed her to live a comfortable life through chess. The world was hers for the taking. Yet, in the span of mere months, Jong began to lose her aura of invincibility. After a brief hiatus from chess competition, she resumed tournaments. But this time, she was vulnerable.

Check and mate. The little girl raises her small arms in triumph and slips off her oversize chair to run and hug her mother at the sidelines. Her opponent, a young American man in his thirties, is dumbfounded and shakes his head in pure disbelief. A collective roar assembles over the crowd as streamers fall through the stadium. The audience is ecstatic, having sat through an hour of battle. It had taken one misstep from the man, and the girl had won the game. As the audience cheered and clapped, the mayor presented the humungous trophy to the diminutive girl. The trophy, twenty pounds of shiny metal, gleamed in the bright lights of the stadium. “Ladies and gentlemen, may I present to you, Waverly Jong, San Francisco’s Chess Champion!” the loud voice boomed over the speakers. Twenty years later, Waverly still remembers the bright lights of the stadium and the applause of the crowd. “It was phenomenal,”

anymore,” Jong said. “It wasn’t like I lose every match. It was that I had to try harder than ever, and I couldn’t keep up.” Jong began to struggle against higher ranked opponents and was even defeated by people she had regularly eliminated before. “There was this one boy,” Jong said. “He was in so many of my tournaments. Before, I used to be able to beat him without a problem. Then, I played him after I came back, and I was shocked to see how close I was to defeat. Then, the next time, he beat me. I was stunned.” Jong’s meteoric rise stunned the world. She began her ruthless onslaught and took the chess world by surprise. But her ephemeral victories showed that even the mightiest can fall.

           

“I began to lose my confidence. I couldn’t see through my opponent’s tactics anymore. I could not keep up

Waverly Jong as a young child

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Sitting in the middle of the San Francisco Bay, Angel Island has harbored a long and seldom-known history of receiving Chinese immigrants. Today, the lush green island is the site of interest for campers seeking adventure in the island’s steep trails and marvelous views. If visitors so choose to, they can visit the Angel Island Immigration Station, a site that processed immigrants from Asian countries that intended to start new lives in the United States. Over the course of thirty years, from 1910 to 1940, Angel Island served as a U.S. Public Health Service Quarantine Station and a U.S.

By Nicholas ChowCrusader’s Chronicle

The Gates of AmericaAngel Island

Asian immigrants waited feverishly for entry into the mainland. Immigrants were required to pass stringent interrogations in which immigration officers attempted to determine the legitimacy of the immigrant’s paper.

However, most of these questions were ridiculously difficult; the officers would force immigrants to recall minute details about their lives. It was exceedingly difficult to pass these tests, with most immigrants forced to appeal their cases numerous times.

“My mother had a friend who was literally forced to remember how many streets intersected the street that she lived on,” said Bai. “Another one of my mother’s

The immigrants that did not pass the initial interrogations were confined in prison cells with terrible conditions and overcrowded rooms.

“It was terrible in there,” said Xiao Zhizhu, an elderly woman who spent five years trapped in the immigration center. “I shared a tiny room with five other people. There was no privacy, and when it got hot, the entire room was like a sauna.”

Much of the unequal treatment of the Chinese immigrants stems from the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, which barred Chinese immigrants from entering America. Initially when the gold had been plentiful during the Gold Rush, Chinese immigrants were welcomed to help mine gold.

When jobs became more scarce however, Americans blamed the Chinese for taking the low-paying jobs. This led to the Chinese Exclusion Act

Bureau of Immigration inspection and detention facility. In this course of time, the

station processed approximately one million Asian immigrants.

“My mother came through this station,” said Bai Laoshi, a San Francisco Chinatown resident. “She came here with her older brother in 1927.”

Here in the immigration stations,

friends had to list the number of steps leading up to her house. Of course, I have no idea how the immigration office would know the legitimacy of the answer.”An Immigrant

Angel Island Map

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being signed by Congress on May 6, 1882.

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was not the only anti-Chinese act signed into legislation; it was the legal precedent for anti-Asian laws in America. The 1888 Scott Act and the 1892 Geary Act soon followed with countless other acts passed years later.

“These laws made it extremely difficult for Chinese to enter America,” said Arnold Friend, professor of Chinese-American political relations at Harvard University. “If a Chinese immigrant wished to enter the US, he or she would have to obtain an official paper from the Chinese government. Many times, even these papers were not respected by the US government. In essence, these series of laws halted the assimilation of the Chinese population with other Americans.”

Even though the US passed stringent anti-Chinese policies in the 19th and 20th centuries, Chinese immigrants are still thankful.

“There were many people who were very bad to us,” said Bai. “But in the end, my mother said that America was the land of opportunity, and we would make a much better life here than in China.” Angel Island in San Francisco Bay

Angel Island from above

Rigorous Immigration Check

Immigration Administration Building

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The tactful woman smiles triumphantly as she surveys her opponents. “Pung! Mah jong!” Tiles are flipped and points carefully calculated. What is this game? Mahjong.

Recently, the sport of mahjong has been spreading throughout San Francisco Chinatown like wildfire. “I love Mahjong. It is so fun!” said Chinatown resident Yang Qianbi. “I play it with all of my friends.”Mahjong is a game that originated in China and became popular due to the influx of Chinese immigrants in America. The game involves four players matching wits and skill, also including a bit of chance.“Basically, the game is played with a set of 136 tiles with Chinese symbols. In the beginning, each player begins by receiving thirteen tiles. During the course of the game, players draw and discard tiles until they complete a legal hand to form four groups and a pair,” said Yang.

As mahjong has evolved, there are multiple versions of the rules. The game has even spread to some Jewish communities. Nowadays,

By Nicholas ChowCrusader’s Chronicle

MahjongA Growing Sport

even some college students will play the game with their friends.“I only played a little [Mahjong] in college with some Jewish friends (33),” said June Woo.

However, Chinese people are adamant that the Jewish version is quite inferior to the Chinese version. “[Jewish Mahjong is] an entirely different kind of playing. Jewish Mahjong, they watch only for their own

tile, play only with their eyes,” said Lindo Jong. “Chinese Mahjong, you must play using your head … You must watch what everybody else throws away and keep that in your head as well. And if nobody plays well, then the game becomes like Jewish Mahjong.”

Celebrating its 30 year, Saratoga High School and its students are proving themselves to be quite remarkable. Many of the teachers are enthusiastically applauding the great works produced by their students.“These young adults are absolutely fantastic, I Love working here,” exclaims Misk Ees, an english teacher at this school. Ees goes on to say that ”I’m astounded by the time and effort they put it, especially on tough final project, they just never give up.” She is not alone in her praise of the great students, Mist Urdaivee, a history teacher, agrees and says “I

By Graham GrantCrusader’s Chronicle

Local School Excells

Saratoga High School

wish i could just give them all a 200% on their final project. These astounding children truly deserve it”. As this school continues to do so well, we’ll see what’s it’s like in the future. An interesting aspect of this school in the increasing Asian population. many predict that by 2010 the Asian demographic will exceed 40%. The school’s programs include many sports teams and a growing music department. The director of the music program, Myculb Oytz, regards his students as the future of Saratoga High School.“I want this program to grow and become a huge part of this great school, maybe someday, six ninths of the student body will be involved in this department.” With a bright future ahead, this institution has much to look forward to.

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By Jingmei WooFriend of Nicholas Chow

Communist China

From eyes of an American

I’ll be quite honest with you, I’m more American than Chinese. I guess that’s just what America does to Chinese people. Actually, it’s more like

quite content to live in America and live the American way of life. I’ll take American democracy and the supposed American indifferent and laziness any day over China. Why you might ask? Well, like all Americans, I have a penchant for hating communism.

When people talk about China, they say that it’s the largest country in the world population-wise, and we should all tremble when they figure out their place in the world. Even Napoleon in the 19th century said something along the lines of “When China awakes, the entire world will tremble.” Honestly, I don’t see this happening because of communism in China.

Back in the day, China was declared a republic in 1912 by Dr. Sun Yatsun, and then everyone was happy, because they thought they were going to get a lot of rights that were not previously given to them. But boy were they wrong. It so happened that for the next

thirty years or so, China was ruled by warlords who were little more than dictators. Finally, during WWII, Zhang Jieshi’s Guomingtang found a new enemy, Mao Zedong’s communist Red Army. And when the dust settled, Mao was in power of China.

And with communism, the government seized everything. Mao’s soldiers eliminated the

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what America does to every immigrant here. You become one with the American culture. My mother always nags and nags me about not working hard enough, and I do see her point. It’s that in America, we are too complacent and most of the time enjoy life too much. Asians call it the “American way of life.”

I’ll also tell you that I am

wealthy and tried to bring everyone under one party. They called it (and still call it today) one party rule. With the advent of new Chinese communism, Mao brought forth an era of fear and oppression in China. Of course, it wasn’t as bad as Stalinist Russia, but it wasn’t that far off. Especially in the Cultural Revolution, which Mao designed to purge the

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Ulaan BaatarA culinary delight!

Our masterful culinary delight, surpassed by none, is the result of scores of septidecas of the middle kingdoms culminating cultural hodgepodge: the esteemed Panda Express. The panda feast, a collection of five delicacies, is revered by the patrons of the restaurant. A selection of entrees and hors d’oeuvres include the following delectable vittles: the succulent, flavored with only the orangest of oranges imported from Florida, orange chicken; the hand tossed, wok fried, chow mein, browned from the deep fires of Chinese culture; grown from the great panda’s chosen rice field comes the highest

intellectuals in China. I mean, how dumb is that? You’re essentially killing all the smart people in your nation, and then you expect the nation to rise to greater heights?

I don’t understand communism, and I think it is ridiculous. The people in China are impoverished and oppressed, all as a result of communism. China will not progress any further under a communist regime that holds the lives of all the people.

quality rice, to the beautiful kingdom; char broiled on the plains of the Mongolian highlands from Ulaan Baatar, Genghis Khan’s homeland, mongolian beef; and the savory, crisp, luscious, tongue tantalizing egg rolls. The epitome of the summation of Chinese artistic, culinary arts thrives in this wondrous atmosphere of a paucity of currency among the heaps of polymer-based utensils. Wu qiming once commented on the intelligence of the certain species under Ursidae known as the Ailuropoda melanoleuca: “The panda, one of the most advanced species among protists and mollusks, can choose the ball of 480 nm light reflected from a room with a dearth of photons.”

Poster from the Cultural Revolution

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