IN HONOR of ALL THE MOTHERS IN MY LIFE
2014-05-11
Picto-History of 4 Generations of Huaren's Maternal Ancestry
Against ALL ODDS.....my Maternal Grandmother got my Maternal Grandfather to Uproot her family from China to SouthEast Asia.
The family Maritime trade from Fujian China to Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines was thriving and prosperous but the Spectre of War initiated by the Japanese Imperial Forces in Manchuria in the 1920's had created Havoc in China.
Banditry, Kidnapping, drugs, Prostitution and epidemic were common place in China and not a place to raise her children. As tough as a tigress she even brought with her a concubine for him and left life as she knew it into uncharted territories.
My Second Grandmother
After the 2nd World War. Life as Chinese knew it changed drastically. Being Overseas Chinese and Fujianese, we were Kuomintangs that fought the Japanese but lost the homeland in the civil war.
The Western Alliance applied a Bamboo curtain to starve Communist China into submission with the Classic Embargo gambit.
All of a sudden Chinese of any color were discriminated as the communist brush were painted across the board.
Overseas Chinese became a pariah in many places in Asia and still felt in many places in Asia. Discriminatory immigration ruling were common in ALL places. The Australian called it YELLOW FEVER that needed to be controlled. Several Years ago Australian Pauline Hanson wanted the Chinese immigrants'money but legislate exclusion reminisce of the White Australian Policy. Many Chinese forgot that Australia was built over the corpse of aborigines by a legions of endentured criminals exiled off from UK to Australia, thus the term POMMY b**t**ds (Prisoners of her Majesty)
Forget that we fought Japan to the death but now USA was allied with Japan against China and Taiwan became a minor compliant participant.
The effects of USA muscling Taiwan (island about the land mass of Rhode Island) as TOTAL continental China in the United Nation festered until today. Like, The 1949 San Francisco Accord that absolved Japan of ANY and ALL kinds REPARATION for War damages as this would have strengthened Communist China whose entire Eastern Central Southern and Northeastern China was devastated by the War.
Daioyu became Senkaku which was BOUGHT by a private Japanese citizen then was sold to the government of Japan a few years ago was perhaps a set up by Japan to contain China who is flexing its muscle. There was Laws of the Sea of United Nations (UNCLOS) also favored the Philippines as Taiwan would not stand in the way of another USA ally (Philippines) whose Subic and Clark military bases are nuclear weapons capable.
Then, No one knew that the South China Seas (or the West Philippine Seas as Philippines would have called it) that it held one of the richest oil reserves in the world. Thanks to Satellite geophysical imagery.
Mother then..when she was younger
My First English Teacher as she enunciate the Advertisement along the Highway taking me to school.... Coca Cola, Colgate, Pepsi Cola, Palmolive, Esso, Caltex, Church, Street.
as she is now in retiremnent and playing Mahjong
Then there were the Mothers that really are Tigress in many aspects
Even the Caucasian ones...once from the Western reaches of the Mongol Empire had certain Asian hematology in them.
Then the seeds propagated to North America by air as the Native American Indians( First Nations) did by Land eons ago, whom Christopher Columbus "discovered". But this time The Chinese Immigrants brings with them gold and not in search of. Canadian passports was C$ 120,000 per family in the 2000 period until it was clammed down recently.
Then The Modern Role Reversal in the Best Tradition of the male Seahorses
Life is Good....at The Shanghai Bund May 2014
and the world is made by legions of MOTHERS that rocks the Cradle and held in high regards in the hearts of ALL MEN/WOMEN.
HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY
Yes. Even if we have our own family, our mothers needs a visible expression of our feelings..so do our wife...flowers may work...depending on her other things are action may also be just as effective...like cooking a real good meal and washing the dishes...or take her to her favorite show or opera..
Well it was arduos, & poignant - reminisce of the Jewish experience in Eastern Europe. Yet we survive. Probably so with the the toughness of the chinese femme forte.
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