Are the Red Chinese Polluting Young Minds in a Quiet Irvine Shopping Center? 中共污染世界的图谋

陈凯博客： www.kaichenblog.blogspot.com

陈凯一语：

我没有查看“小王朝”中文学校的教材，所以我不能下结论。 我在哈崗学区的抗议是有根据与实证的。 但我知道许多在美的中文学校早已被中共的资金，师资与教材渗透污染了。 我将大纪元的专论文章（英文）附此共你阅读。 绝大多数的在西在美的中文书店都浸有来自中共的书籍毒素。 所以你今天只要读中文，就不可避免地要接触到专制与共产的污染。 这是一个不容回避的事实。

Kai Chen's Words:

I haven't reviewed material provided by "Little Dynasty" Chinese language school, so I cannot make a final judgement. But as far as my experience with Chinese bookstores and Chinese language schools (most of them have regular contact with Chinese Consulates for their support financially and socially) goes, very few of them are not polluted by Chinese despotism and Chinese communism. I now attach the article by Dajiyuan on this subject here for you to read. The indisputable fact is that today if you read any Chinese material, the chance of it being contaminated by ancient despotism and modern communism is huge.

Are the Red Chinese Polluting Young Minds in a Quiet Irvine Shopping Center?

中共污染世界的图谋

By Matt Coker, Wed., Oct. 27 2010 @ 4:00PM


UPDATE: In an email to the Weekly, the owner of A Little Dynasty denies there is any basis for the criticism of his new Chinese school in Irvine (see end of post) . . .

Could the Quail Hill Village Center in Irvine become the next hotspot for anti-communist crusaders fighting the spread of Chinese education in America?

The Irvine Co.'s Oct. 14 announcement about the opening of A Little Dynasty Chinese School is not being embraced by a Chinese-American activist who previously protested the life-size Mao Tse-Tung statue at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda and a "Confucius Classroom" program at Cedarlane Middle School in Hacienda Heights.

A Little Dynasty only educates preschoolers (roughly 3 to 4 years old), kindergarteners (4 to 5) and first graders (6-7). According to the school's website, a student is immersed in Chinese language but he or she also learns culture, art, music, science and math through methods geared to his or her age.

A Little Dynasty's Chinese School is an innovative program that makes learning Chinese language a fun-filled experience. This is a Chinese language immersion program that is carefully designed to self-motivate students to excel. The program is designed to simulate actual pre-kindergarten through first grade study in mainland China and Taiwan, using current official imported materials.

​The Irvine Co. boasts that A Little Dynasty owner and Irvine resident Charles Liu "has relationships with some of the largest overseas children's publishing houses that allow the facility to use the latest official Chinese language classroom materials, including award-winning textbooks and multi-media materials unlike anything available domestically."

It's those materials--and where they are coming from--that troubles Kai Chen, the author, former Red Army member and Chinese national basketball team player who since relocating to Los Angeles has confronted what he sees as a Red Chinese spread into American life.

"Most Chinese language schools are more or less controlled and influenced by the Chinese government, for the material nowadays comes mostly from the mainland due to the communist propaganda machine and government funding," Chen said. "If you go to any Chinese language bookstore in America, you will find the similar material like those provided by the Confucius Classroom program. The poison is everywhere in America nowadays, and most people are unaware of it."

He claimed some teachers in Chinese language immersion programs instruct students to say, "I am not American. I am Chinese."

"Things like this must exposed," he said, "and poison the Chinese communist government injects in the world must be cleansed."

Like similar programs in public schools and universities around the country, the Confucius Classroom in the Hacienda La Puente Unified School District was to be paid for through division of the Chinese government's education department.

However, following the campaign launched by Chen and others, Hacienda La Puente's school board decided to fund the program itself, although some of the original China-supplied educational materials are being used.

Chen and other supporters of the anti-Red cause are now seeking recalls of Hacienda La Puente trustees who voted for Confucius Classroom.

UPDATE: Here is the email from Charles Liu:

I am the owner of A Little Dynasty. I have not been contacted by Kai Chen and have frankly never heard of him before I read your article so clearly Kai Chen has not actually seen our materials.

Our curriculum and all of the materials used in our school are imported from Taiwan. When we say approved by the MOE, we mean Taiwan's MOE. We do not use any materials from China, receive no money from China, and have no relationship whatsoever with any Chinese organization or the Chinese government. In fact, all of our instructors are from Taiwan. I am also from Taiwan.

I am an attorney at law (State Bar No. 190513). I demand that you immediately retract your blog post as it is false and defamatory.

While I do not necessarily concur with Mr. Kai Chen's viewpoint about China, he should have no problem with A Little Dynasty because our curriculum and materials come from Taiwan, one of the freest and most vibrant democracies in the world.

--Charles Liu
Irvine

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Beijing Chinese Language Schools Brainwash Students

一些在美中文学校为北京给学童洗脑

OverseasBy Yuan Mei, Liu Fei & Robin Kemker

Epoch Times Staff Created: Jul 7, 2009

LOS ANGELES—Recently Beijing established many Chinese “Confucius Institutes” around the world through cooperation with Asia-Pacific research institutes or Chinese language centers in universities overseas. However, this move is criticized for exporting communist ideology in the name of language education.

In the United States, there are about 40 such Confucius Institutes. Their students also include government officials and consultants who advise decision makers.

Patriotism for the Communist Party and China

China’s state media people.com.cn reported the curriculums and teaching materials of the Institutes come from the Confucius Institute Headquarters located in Beijing. The Institutes follow a standardized instruction, testing, and training system.

The teaching materials are widely adopted by local Chinese schools overseas. Yao Zhe, a Chinese school teacher in southern California, confirmed this. Yao said, “Through the teaching material, Beijing propagates its ideology of patriotism for the Communist Party and China, autocratic culture, and nationalism. Almost all Chinese schools in the United States that teach simplified Chinese adopt materials from the Institute.” Yao called it a ‘soft cold war,’ ‘a battlefield without a smoking gun’ because they brainwash people without them knowing it.

'Report Teachers That Are Undercover Agents'

Yao at one time applied to be a journalist in the United States. She later became a Chinese language teacher because she saw how Beijing had infiltrated overseas media. She realized such infiltration could be seen everywhere in the United States.

Beijing also aggressively develops colonies of its ideology and imperceptibly brainwashes overseas Chinese. When there is an incident, these Chinese people will take the same stand as Beijing and view overseas Chinese dissidents with hatred. They become Beijing’s voice in other countries.

Insider information from China’s Linguistic Committee indicates that one of Hu Jintao’s think tanks suggested to him that although China was invaded many times during its history, Chinese culture was never compromised. This proves its strength, so they suggested the establishment of Confucius Institutes, and in the name of teaching Chinese language, teach Communist ideology instead of Confucianism’s principles.

'I Am Chinese, Not an American'

Chinese journalist Li Gong noted in a 2007 interview that he saw a Chinese language public school teacher in the United States teaching students to say in Chinese, “I am Chinese, not an American.” “How can American children learn to love their country when they are taught this way? It terrifies me,” Li said. “Cultural infiltration using language is against the principles of Startalk.”

Startalk is a program of the National Security Language Initiative established by former President Bush in January of 2006. The initiative seeks to expand and improve the teaching and learning of strategically important world languages that are not now widely taught in the United States. It started with Arabic and then added Chinese.

Li by chance, met a Language Section Chief of the Department of Homeland Security who requested anonymity, since he was not authorized to speak on behalf of the department. Li asked why both languages (Arab and Chinese) are listed as homeland security strategy languages? The section chief answered Arab is for preventing terrorism, but only smiled when asked why Chinese was on the list.

When Li asked the section chief about the infiltration of agents into the schools, the section chief replied that two years ago, the CIA had asked the public to report any Chinese teachers who act like spies in Los Angeles.

Covert Brainwashing

It should be noted that the Communist Party’s propaganda website states that overseas language schools are one of the “three pillars” of the party’s international propaganda effort.

Parents are not aware that subtle methods of brainwashing are occurring in the textbooks and research assignments.

According to a Chinese language teacher affiliated with a Confucius Institute in the United States, who wishes to remain anonymous, parents and educators are not aware of the subtle methods of brainwashing occurring in the textbooks and assignments. These assignments include research into the lives of communist leaders, merits of communism, etc. Additionally, research assignments require students to use party English language websites hosted in China, the contents of which are generally not reviewed by the U.S. school system.

The HanBan, sponsor of the Confucius Institutes has various levels of textbooks for teaching Chinese courses. This Chinese language teacher provided the scanned upper half of page 93 in Volume 3 of Contemporary Chinese by Dangdai Zhongwen, volume 3, in use in 2008 in the United States, the English translation of a Chinese section states:

Going to see Ma Kesi (Marx) means going to see God

The teacher posed the question, "Why do they discuss god? Why isn’t Ma Kesi literally translated? Ma Kesi is the god of communism. They don’t want the students to know the name.”

During the horrific Cultural Revolution, Mao Zedong exhorted members of the Communist Party and its organizations that do its bidding to the death, “They will be greeted by Karl Marx.” Karl Marx in Simplified Chinese is pronounced Ma Kesi, the god of communism.

The teacher said that some may consider such matters trite. One must consider what else is hidden in these institute teaching materials and especially the research assignments in its curriculum.

'... Because we don’t have communism in America'

One reason for this teacher’s willingness to give an interview was an unexpected meeting with a former student taught several years before. When asked what university the student was going to attend, the student replied, …

“I don’t want to attend any universities in America, or even in Tokyo. I want to go to a university in Beijing, because they teach communism there. I don’t understand why we don’t have communism in America.”

This teacher ended, “They have no idea about the truth, they don’t know the true history of the party!”

As a reporter and writer, I have shared this student’s statement with several seasoned educators and administrators through various channels. One senior administrator in Montana was skeptical; he could not believe that this had taken place. He thought I was misrepresenting the situation. Montana had already agreed to an institute. He knows the history of the communism, but the students don't.

My grandfather once sheepishly shared with me that he was a communist in the Netherlands through the carpenters’ guild. After World War I, economic times were hard in Europe and many of the commoners in Europe were enamored with the communist promise of “Heaven on Earth.”

However, the Communist Revolution quickly opened their eyes. What happened in Russia caused the Dutch to renounce any affiliation with—quoting my grandfather—“The blood thirsty party.”

As our economy slows and more families are affected, the promise of “Heaven on Earth” could deeply affect how communism is viewed by our young people.

The Confucius Institutes, the third pillar of the Chinese Communist Party’s propaganda machine will not be covering the finer points of the Great Famine and the Cultural Revolution, let alone the systematic genocide of Falun Gong practitioners and other targeted groups taking place in China today.