MiataDrivers - Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, 1910-1940 (Naomi B. Pascal Editor's Endowment)
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Island records some of the earliest literary expressions of the Chinese in America: 135 poems written and carved into the barrack walls on Angel Island in San Francisco Bay, where the immigrants were held for weeks and months while undergoing government scrutiny. The period was 1910 to 1940, when Angel Island was known as the Ellis Island of the West.
The poems have been collected, translated, annotated, and organized into a beautifully designed two-c...
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