Ren Su DB 1

During Bahadur’s research on the history of his great-grandmother, I learned that Asian women had a very difficult time during that period, and they were forced to sign indentured labourer or coolies. I learned that they are very strong and brave. In Bahadur’s research, she was subject to many restrictions, because her great-grandmother and others were illiterate and could not write down the situation at the time, which led to the need to obtain records from the doctors and magistrates on board at the time. To find information. In order to fill the gap, she will return to her grandmother’s village to find some unofficial information. If we want to build our own family history archives, we need to record the situation at that time in several different ways. The first way is to write all the events and characters that happened at that time in a book. The second way is to narrate, telling one’s family history from generation to generation. This ensures that as long as we look up the family history, there will be no gaps. Of course, if I want to know the family history, I will go back and ask my grandmother and grandfather.

Hazel C. Hong is a Chinese who has lived in San Francisco for more than 65 years. She spoke Chinese when she was at home with her children, and her husband, Harry Hong, served as a translator for American immigrants. Hazel remembers celebrating the Lunar New Year and other holidays with his family. In this interview, I learned that they had no racial discrimination and no place to work, but Hazel’s job was to find out the problematic bullets (during the war) everyone had to find 25,000 bullets manually. In my impression, that period (Chinese workers came to America to build railways) was a very serious matter of discrimination, but Hazel said that there was no discrimination where she lived and worked. What even surprised me was that Hazel’s children never returned to China. I feel that history is missing a lot of the true ideas of people who lived during that period.