Island

Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, 1910-1940

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Island

Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, 1910-1940

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In this revised edition sixty-nine poems in the main text have been combined with the sixty-six poems in the appendix into one section. Chinese poems that have been found on the walls of the immigration stations at Ellis Island in New York ad Victoria, B.C. in Canada are also included. Charles Egan, David Chuenyan Lai, Marlon K. Hom, and Ellen Yeung helped with the new translations and corrected any errors in the poems based on a report commissioned by the Angel Island Immigration Foundation. The historical introduction is rewritten to include the new research that has been done since Island was first published; excerpts of oral histories are replaced with twenty full profiles and stories drawn from our oral history collection and the immigration files at the National Archives, San Francisco.

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English
Pages
174

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Cover of: Island
Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, 1910-1940, Second Edition
2014, University of Washington Press
in English and Chinese - Second Edition
Cover of: Island
Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, 1910-1940
June 1999, University of Washington Press
Paperback in English
Cover of: Island
Island: poetry and history of Chinese immigrants on Angel Island 1910-1940
1991, University of Washington Press
in English
Cover of: Island
Island: poetry and history of Chinese immigrants on Angel Island, 1910-1940
1980, Hoc Doi (History of Chinese Detained on Island) : distributed by San Francisco Study Center
in English

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"Angel Island, now an idyllic state park out in San Francisco Bay not far from Alcatraz, was the point of entry for the majority of the approximately 175,000 Chinese immigrants who came to America between 1910 and 1940."

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Paperback
Number of pages
174
Dimensions
9 x 7.4 x 0.4 inches
Weight
12.8 ounces

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OL9378016M
ISBN 10
0295971096
ISBN 13
9780295971094
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80455
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99684

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July 30, 2019 Edited by MARC Bot associate edition with work OL4077897W
August 12, 2010 Edited by IdentifierBot added LibraryThing ID
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