Haoqing's Art Website
Dominoes
Haoqing Yu, Dominoes, Collage, Midjourney, July 2024
Pigeon Script (白鸽票 Baige Piao)
Haoqing Yu, Pigeon Script I, Collage, Midjourney, July 2024
Haoqing Yu, Pigeon Script II, Collage, Midjourney, July 2024
Board Games
Weiqi 围棋
Chinese Chess (象棋 Xiangqi)
Six-Sided Dice
Haoqing Yu, Six-Sided Dice, Collage, Midjourney, July 2024
Kite Flying
Haoqing Yu, Flying Kite I, Collage, Midjourney, July 2024
Haoqing Yu, Flying Kite II, Collage, Midjourney, July 2024
Shuttlecock Kicking (毽子 Jianzi)
Haoqing Yu, Shuttlecock Kicking, Collage, Midjourney, July 2024
Chen Ha's Story
The Reverend William Loomis, a leading Christian missionary among Chinese in America, recorded one unusual report from a man named Chen Ha, who recounted his tragic story on a long poster publicly mounted in San Francisco in 1868. Two years earlier, in 1866, he declared, bandits overran his home village of San. They killed many male villagers and took women and children captive, including his sister Ah Shau. He learned from his father that Ah Shau had been taken to California, where she was forced into prostitution. Chen Ha, tormented by the anguish he imagined she suffered, cried out in his circular: “Alas! Alas! Who that has a sister would endure the thought of her being taken to a brothel? A thousand shames!......Despite valiant efforts, Chen Ha never succeeded in finding her.
--- Gordon H. Chang, Ghosts of Gold Mountain, 2019, p. 129-130
Hung Wah's Story
In January 1867, Hung Wah's business partner, William McDaniel, was murdered in Auburn, California. McDaniel's wife found his body with severe head and neck wounds, and she saw a Chinese man fleeing the scene. A bloody hatchet was found, and robbery was suspected as the motive since the safe was partially emptied. The community raised a reward for identifying the killer, with Hung Wah leading the Chinese effort to add to the reward. The local Chinese community, likely including Hung Wah, honored McDaniel with a special headstone in Auburn's cemetery, featuring English and Chinese inscriptions. Later it was found that it was Ah Sing who killed McDaniel. A year later, in July 1868, Hung Wah's store in Auburn's Chinatown was destroyed by a suspicious fire, though no one was injured. The local press did not link the fire directly to McDaniel's murder.
--- Gordon H. Chang, Ghosts of Gold Mountain, 2019, p. 125-126
Ah John
The 1870 census of Truckee, for example, tells us of a person named Ah John, who is listed as male, eighteen years of age, and living with three older Chinese female prostitutes. Curiously, his occupation is also listed as “prostitute,” though this may have been an error.
--- Gordon H. Chang, Ghosts of Gold Mountain, 2019, p. 131