Island : poetry and history of Chinese immigrants on Angel Island 1910-1940 /
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 Chi...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English Chinese |
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Seattle :
University of Washington Press,
1991.
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| Series: | North American immigrant letters, diaries and oral histories.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| 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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| Item Description: | 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. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (174 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (page 172). |
| ISBN: | 0295971096 9780295971094 |