Broadcaster: Hong Kong Television Broadcasting Company Limited (TVB)
Broadcast time: the first episode: from February 12, 2009, it will be broadcast on TVJade every Saturday night 19: 30-20: 30.
Narrator: Gu Tiannong
Producer: Tang Minming
Episode 2: 2012 July 28th to August 1 1 and September 8th to 15, Saturday night at 7:35-8:30.
Narrator: Zheng Zicheng.
Director: Chen
Producer: Tang Minming
The third episode: 2065438+200465438+1October 25th, every Saturday night from 7: 30 to 8: 30, broadcast on TVB Jade and RTHK 3 1.
Narrator: Zheng Zicheng.
Producer: Tang Minming, "It's difficult to climb mountains and mountains. Who feels sorry for the lost people?" I met by chance, and they were all guests from other places. "
Someone once said, "Where there is sea water, there are China people." China people have a long history of emigrating overseas. Due to the different background of each dynasty, China people either chose to leave their homes, or were forced to wander in different places in batches, or did business, or made a living, or fled. Their history of blood and tears is closely related to the history of China.
Overseas Chinese are no strangers to us. From them, we see the shadow of our ancestors, the many twists and turns of the Chinese nation, and the perseverance of the Chinese people. It has been more than 60 years since China people went abroad to reclaim North America.
How much humiliation and sorrow did Jinshan tourists get when the dream of gold rush was shattered and the railway was broken?
"I am often depressed in the shack and think of the moon in my hometown." Angel Island without angels has cut off the reunion of China people, but it can't stop China people from expressing their feelings with poems. Every word carved on the wall is full of disappointment, frustration and resentment.
Wandering China people are like withered seeds scattered on the earth. How many struggles can they thrive? Xenophobia, suspicion and discrimination have made many China people walk on thin ice. 65438+February 2009 65438+February 2009 (Saturday) Wireless TV Emerald Station (episode I) The history of tears and tears of South China University of Technology.
Today, there are about 30 million overseas Chinese in the world, 80% of whom live in Southeast Asia.
The peak period of Chinese immigrants is from the middle of19th century to the beginning of 20th century. Most of them go overseas as China workers and work in Southeast Asian countries. China workers have experienced many bitter stories, especially the story about "selling pigs".
The program will visit Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia, interview people who have experienced this period of history, or their descendants, and listen to their stories about immigrants in those years.
12, 2009 17 (Saturday) Jade TV (episode 2) Chinese businessmen make a fortune.
As early as18th century, China immigrants have become the mainstream, such as chaozhou people, Filipinos and Javanese in Thailand. According to written records, as early as the Song Dynasty, China people went to Nanyang to do business. Because Chinese businessmen have rich experience in doing business in Nanyang, the colonial government still needs the help of Chinese businessmen to run entrepot trade and even develop local industries. Because Chinese have a lot of wealth, they also have great influence in the local area.
On Saturday, February 26th, 2009, 65438, overseas Chinese saved the country (episode III).
Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the father of our country, once said, "Overseas Chinese are the mother of revolution", which means that overseas Chinese are the driving force of the revolution in China. In addition to financial support, some people directly participated in the revolutionary action. Among the 72 martyrs in Huanghuagang, more than 30 were overseas Chinese. Whether in the Revolution of 1911 or in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, overseas Chinese lived in a foreign land, but their hearts were attached to the motherland, which played a key role in the modern development of China.
20 10 0 1.02 (Saturday) Assimilation and Tolerance of Jade TV Station (IV)
Before the 20th century, most governments in Southeast Asia adopted the way of "managing Chinese by Chinese". The most important thing is that Chinese pay taxes on time and maintain social stability. However, sometimes because of the large number of people in China, the rulers of the colonies felt uneasy. Anti-China activities in Manila began as early as the Ming Dynasty. However, most Chinese in Southeast Asia will obey the local colonial government and less participate in politics. They always believe that one day they will retire and return to their hometown.
After World War II, Southeast Asian countries became independent one after another, and at the same time, New China was founded. Due to political problems, Chinese can't wander freely between Nanyang and China as before. When Chinese choose to live in a foreign land for a long time, they begin to face problems such as assimilation and identity, and even some countries have Chinese exclusion.
20 10 0 1.09 (Saturday) TVB Jade Terrace (episode 5) Mulberry Love
For a long time, most overseas Chinese living abroad have been attached to Mulberry, obsessed with building their hometown, caring for their fellow villagers' children, and made great contributions to their hometown and even China.
But today, they have changed from "overseas Chinese" who lived in other countries in the early days to overseas Chinese. They identify themselves as China people in culture and customs, but they are also nationals of their place of residence. China people have changed from political apathy to participating in and discussing state affairs, and they are also concerned about local construction. On July 28th, 2065438+02, the first episode of Emerald Channel: Looking at American and Canadian Chinese from the mass media.
19 At the end of the 20th century, in American and Canadian political cartoons, people in China were always seen with long braids and gloomy faces.
Fu Manchu's novels were published in 19 13, which were very popular in Britain and the United States, and were later made into a series of movies by Hollywood. However, Fu Manchu is a bald and ugly evil incarnation. Does it represent the western understanding of the image of China people? Chen Chali, the protagonist of mystery novels, also made a series of popular movies in the United States from 65438 to 0926. Chen Chali is calm and polite, but he often uses broken English. Does he vilify China people like Fu Manchu? In 1980s, the film the Year of the Loong characterized China people as gangsters, which caused criticism that humiliated China.
For a long time, the image of Chinese Americans has been distorted by mass media. It was not until the 1980s that Wang Ying made the film "Looking for People" in a realistic way, reflecting the various life features of the Chinese community, because he understood that "the media represents everything".
Through cartoons, documentary images, movies and interviews with director Wang Ying, we can see the evolution of Chinese life and changes in social status in the United States and Canada from the gold rush era to today.
20 12 August 4, Jade Terrace Episode 2: Chinese, railway, poll tax.
1865, the first batch of Chinese workers joined the construction of the Central Pacific Railway in the United States. By 1866, the number of Chinese workers in the United States has exceeded100000, and it is known as "the true pioneer of America". On the other hand, from 188 1 to 1885, the Canadian government adopted the experience of the United States, introduced more than15,000 workers from China, and built the Pacific Railway across the east and west banks. Chinese receive only half the salary of whites, but they are responsible for building the most dangerous sections on the high mountains of the Rocky Mountains. In addition to cutting mountains and chopping stones, they also planted explosives, during which 1000 more Chinese workers were killed.
The completion of the Pacific Railway is of great significance for connecting the east and west sides of Canada. However, although China people have made great contributions, they have not been well rewarded, but have been spurned.
In the same year when the Canadian Railway was completed, Canada was hit by the economic depression, so the government passed the Chinese Immigration Ordinance, imposing a "poll tax" of 50 dollars on each Chinese immigrant, with the aim of preventing the influx of Chinese. By 1904, the "poll tax" had risen to 500 Canadian dollars, which was equivalent to the salary of a China person for two years at that time. How can the "poll tax" victims and their families who have experienced discrimination and humiliation clench their fists and strive for the dignity they deserve, even though they are old?
20 12 August 1 1 Jade Terrace Episode III: Angel Island without Angels
"China guy must get out of here! They took our jobs! 」
1In the early 1970s, with the completion of the railway and the occurrence of the American economic crisis, the anti-China trend of thought in the United States began. 1882, the United States passed the Chinese Exclusion Act.
19 10, the American authorities began to set up an immigration station in Angel Island, California, and detained and interrogated anyone suspected of entering the Pacific Ocean (most of them were from China). The interrogation questions were harsh and tricky. Round after round, China people were sent back at any time because of their slight negligence in answering the wrong questions, and the detention period became a dark and fearful day.
Some people can't stand suicide, and some people carve poems on the wall to express their feelings with poems. Today, hundreds of Chinese poems discovered from Angel Island bear witness to the history of Americans' rejection of China.
Angel Island is a brand of life, whether it's China people who left Angel Island detention center and entered the United States or China people who were repatriated.
20 12 emerald terrace episode 4: sweet and sour bones and laundry
When the gold rush subsided and the railway was completed, a large number of Chinese engaged in laundries that were regarded as offensive industries at that time. 1900 California population survey report shows that nearly 20% of Chinese are engaged in the laundry industry, which shows the prosperity of this industry. Unfortunately, this caused dissatisfaction among white people, and the California government introduced a number of administrative measures against China Laundry. For example, the San Francisco municipal government levied a burden tax on laundries on 1872, which cracked down on the Chinese who used to bear the burden.
By A.D. 1920, China people had moved to Tang Restaurant. In the absence of China ingredients, how to brew Chinese food popular with local people? Why do some restaurants in the early Tang Dynasty have band accompaniment besides food? And how can a simple dish "fried chop suey", which is rarely ordered by China people, be welcomed by white people? Jinshan prawn, often advertised by seafood shops, turned out to be a story of a shrimp village in China.
In the early years, Chinese in the United States and Canada struggled among the lower classes. Their experience is just like sweet and sour pork ribs, which are an indispensable dish in local Tang restaurants. It is both bitter and sweet.
20 12 September 15 Emerald Balcony Episode 5: World War II and Korean War.
In the 1940s and 1950s, the international situation changed. After World War II and the Cold War, Chinese in North America in a foreign land experienced different changes.
Before World War II, Canada discriminated against Chinese everywhere. Even Canadian-born China people are second-class citizens and have no right to vote. When World War II broke out, some people in China volunteered to join the army regardless of their families' opposition, and fought fearlessly in the rain of bullets for only one reason: soldiers could enjoy the right to vote. Going out for the country finally made Chinese in North America get the same treatment and respect as whites after the war, and improved their status in the eyes of local people.
However, the People's Republic of China (PRC) (PRC) was founded in 1949, and Sino-US relations quickly regressed due to different ideologies. After the Korean War broke out, China officially intervened in 1950 and 10, and Sino-US relations were particularly tense. From 195 1 to 10, the US Department of Justice prohibited China students studying science, engineering, agriculture and medicine from leaving the United States, and China students became embargoed strategic materials. Some international students from China have experienced a tortuous road to return home; Others stayed in the United States for development because of this measure, including Yang Zhenning, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics. As for Chinese in North America, if they have participated in leftist organizations or supported the new China ruled by * * *, they will be investigated and even prosecuted. The political situation is everywhere, and Chinese in North America who are caught in the cracks are often involuntarily.