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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.
Title
Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, 1910-1940
Author
Lai, Him Mark, ed.
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Date
1996
Object ID
2003.500.073