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Island Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Angel Island is never mentioned in schools but it is just as important as Ellis Island in the history of immigration to the US The immigration station which operated from 19101940 mainly detained Chinese immigrants many of whom had to resort to using fraudulent papers to enter the country and escape poverty and unrest in China because of the Chinese Exclusion Act Echoes of History Chinese Poetry at the Angel Island Text from Island Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island 19101940 These lines are from just one of the hundreds of poems carved on the barrack walls of the Angel Island Immigration Station in the early twentieth century by Chinese detainees awaiting decisions on their entry status Island Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island 19101940 Naomi B Pascal Editors Endowment Him Mark Lai Genny Lim Judy Yung on FREE shipping on qualifying offers In the early twentieth century most Chinese immigrants coming to the United States were detained at the Angel Island Immigration Station in San Francisco Bay Island Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island 19101940 Ed Him Mark Lai Genny Lim and Judy Yung Seattle and London University of Washington Press 1991 174 pages 1495 Island poetry and history of Chinese immigrants on Angel Poetry and history of Chinese immigrants on Angel Island 19101940 Note Island was selfpublished in 1980 with partial funding from the Zellerbach Family Fund and the Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation as well as the assistance of the San Francisco Study Center and Chinese Culture Foundation of San Francisco under the publishers nameHOC University of Washington Press Books Island Island Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island 19101940 Edited by Him Mark Lai Genny Lim and Judy Yung 2995 paperback 9780295994079 Add to Cart hardcover not available Island poetry and history of Chinese immigrants on Angel English and Chinese with additional bibliography in Chinese Cover title also in Chinese Ai lun shi ji Reprint Originally published San Francisco HOC DOI 1980 Includes bibliographical references p 172 Angel Island in San Francisco Bay was the entry internment center and often closest approach to the US for Chinese immigrants in the early 20th century Island Poetry and History of Chinese 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 Lost Poetry of the Angel Island Detention Center The The Lost Poetry of the Angel Island Detention Center Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island 19101940” Yung has dedicated much of her career to studying the immigration History of Angel Island Immigration Station Angel Island The following poems were published in Him Mark Lai Genny Lim and Judy Yung’s book Island Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island 19101940 2nd edition Seattle University of Washington Press 2014 Detained in this wooden house for several tens of days It is all because of the Mexican exclusion law which implicates me
