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Island : [electronic resource] poetry and history of Chinese immigrants on Angel Island 1910-1940 / Him Mark Lai, Genny Lim, Judy Yung.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: engchi Publication details: Seattle : University of Washington Press, 1991.Description: 174 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0295971096 (alk. paper)
  • 9780295971094 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 895.1/15108 20
LOC classification:
  • PL3164.5.E5 L35 1991
Online resources: Summary: 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. Here are the thoughts they carved and inkbrushed on their barrack's walls, discovered after the center closed in 1940. Facing pages of Chinese and English. No index.
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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. Here are the thoughts they carved and inkbrushed on their barrack's walls, discovered after the center closed in 1940. Facing pages of Chinese and English. No index.

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