Hanson Chan

Sands and Bubbles Hanson Chan

This is a collection of articles that deal with accounts of the author's participation in "Bao-diao" movement, Chinatown reform, and his work and involvement of the republication of the China Daily News on a daily function in New York in the 70s and 80s of the 20th Century. Other articles include reports, comments, analysis, and criticism on social issues concerning Chinese heritage for Chinese-American as well as the past and current development of U. S. and China relation; in addition, the questions which surrounds the future of Taiwan, the reunification with Mainland China, and its present status and dilemma are discussed. Since the author has been a journalist and a screenplay writer, the movies which he had written and filmed are reviewed in speeches that he was asked to deliver and commented. Last, not the least, there is a full text of an oral history of his own story as a Chinese immigrant to the United States since teenage, his research on his family genealogy, and how he coped with every step to survive and to maintain his belief of a better tomorrow.