Notice To Media and General Public:

1.  As a security precaution, we ask that the media not publish
    pictures of members of China's Imperial family.

2.  There are no known pictures in the general public domain showing
    China's Han Emperor and past Han Emperors, over the last 300
    years.

3.  China's Imperial family are members of the Chou Dynasty, which
    was founded by Emperor Shun Cheong, a cousin to the Ming Dynasty
    Imperial family, in 1622 B.C.

4.  The last dynasty to rule all of China was the Ch'ing Dynasty, a
    Manchurian dynasty in governance over ethnic Han-Chinese people.

5.  The Chou Dynasty (1644 A.D. to present) encompasses descendants
    of the original Chou Dynasty lineage (1122 B.C. to 256 B.C.),
    the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), as an affiliate family, and the
    Ch'ing Dynasty (1643-1912).

6.  The main reason for this rule is that it serves as a security
    precaution, as some members of our family have been subjected to
    assaults by other people. 

7.  We do not have, as a formal measure, U.S. Secret Service 
    protection and must provide for our own security, while living in 
    exile in the United States of America.

8.  This precaution helps us as maintain our security.  Some of our
    family members would be in physical danger, if this policy was
    not observed, as we do travel to Asia and other political "hot
    spots" in this world.

9.  Anyone making political statements about controversy or trying
    to aid a foreign cause needs to maintain a measure of security.

10. As to legal standards, with respect to harassment, we adhere to 
    the standards given in the Holy Scriptures, where it says that a 
    good name is better than gold.  By doing good, we receive good.  
    By remaining within the keeping of public laws and by maintaining
    a professional standard of conduct with respect to one's personal 
    and business life, by the maintenance of a good community name and
    public relations, a person's security is in some way protected.

11. The identity of China's Emperor, HIM Yao Sui, is not known to the
    general public and we would like to keep things that way.  We do
    this as a security precaution to protect China's Imperial family.

12. Threats have been made by a number of miscellaneous people on the
    life of China's Emperor and this has been reported to the police 
    and FBI. Therefore, as to China's Emperor's true identity and name
    we ask for everyone's patience and understanding as to the 
    outworkings of our Chinese culture and custom (as given above) and
    not publicly reveal our identity or residence.

    We are Han-Chinese and not Manchurian. And our lives could be put 
    in danger by exposure to the wrong groups in mainland China.

If there are any questions, you may contact the overseas 
representative for China's Imperial family:

Lester D. K. Chow and Associates
P.O. Box 4604
Honolulu, Hawaii 96812
(808) 538-1855

Date of original posting: 1996
1st amended: Mar  8, 2000
2nd amended: Mar 24, 2000
3rd amended: Jun  6, 2000
4th amended: Mar 28, 2007