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Island : Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, 1910-1940 / edited by Him Mark Lai, Genny Lim, and Judy Yung.
Van Pelt Library PL3164.5.E5 I85 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Naomi B. Pascal Editor's Endowment.
- Naomi B. Pascal Editor's Endowment
- Language:
- Chinese
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chinese poetry--United States--Translations into English.
- Chinese poetry.
- Chinese poetry--20th century--Translations into English.
- Immigrants' writings, Chinese.
- Chinese--United States--History.
- Chinese.
- Immigrants--United States--History.
- Immigrants.
- History.
- United States.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--History.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Genre:
- History.
- Translations.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 368 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Other Title:
- Poetry and history of Chinese immigrants on Angel Island, 1910-1940
- Place of Publication:
- Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- Bilingual text in English and Chinese.
- Contents:
- Poetry
- Carved on the Walls: Poetry of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island 35
- The Voyage: Poems 1-22 45
- In Detention: Poems 23-64 65
- The Weak Shall Conquer: Poems 65-90 99
- About Westerners: Poems 91-112 123
- Deportees and Transients: Poems 113-135 143
- Detention in the Muk UK 165
- Poems from Ellis Island 179
- Poems From Victoria, B.C. 185
- Dual Histories
- Speaking for Themselves: Oral Histories of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island 196
- The Transpacific Fathers / Lim Kam On On, Lim Kam, Lim Tai Go Go, Lim Tai 203
- Paper Son of a Merchant / Lai Bing Bing, Lai 213
- "To Speak from the Heart" / Tom Yip Jing Jing, Tom Yip 221
- "That's How It Was" / Law Shee Low Low, Law Shee 230
- "Had I Known It Was Like This, I Would Never Have Come!" / Mrs. Wong Wong, Mrs. 238
- "Then Vroom, They Ate and Were Gone!" / John Mock, Kitchen Helper Helper, John Mock, Kitchen 245
- A Story of Survival and Hope / Soto Shee Shee, Soto 250
- A True Chinese Character / Wong Gung Jue Jue, Wong Gung 254
- "A Certain Amount, of Fairness" / Edwar Lee Lee, Edwar 260
- "No Gold to Be Picked Up" / Helen Hong Wong Wong, Helen Hong 267
- A Gold Mountain Man's Monologue / Jann Mon Fong Fong, Jann Mon 274
- Imprisonment at Angel Island / Xie Chuang Chuang, Xie 279
- "All Because China Was a Weak Country" / Tet Yee Yee, Tet 287
- "Why?" / Koon T. Law Law, Koon T. 292
- "We Were Real, So There Was Nothing to Fear" / Lee Show Nam Nam, Lee Show 301
- "A Square Deal" / Emery Sims Sims, Emery 312
- "Just Keep a Hopeful Attitude" / Mock GingSing GingSing, Mock 316
- "Treated as Second-Class Citizens" / Ja Kew Yuen Yuen, Ja Kew 325
- "A Bowlful of Tears" / Lee Puey You You, Lee Puey 330.
- Notes:
- Island was self-published 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 publisher's name--HOC DOI, which stands for "History of Chinese Detained on Island." It went into a second printing in 1983 and was republished by the University of Washington Press in 1991.
- 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 had been found on the walls of the immigration stations at Ellis Island in New York and at Victoria Island 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 "Poetry and Inscriptions," the research team's report. 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 NARA-SF (National Archives at San Francisco). Unlike the first edition of Island, this revised edition uses the real names of our interviewees and includes photographs of them. Volunteers pored over twenty-seven rolls of microfilm that had been scanned by Ancestry.com in an effort to determine the actual detention time, exclusions, and appeals for Chinese applicants at Angel Island (see tables 1 and 2 in the appendix). The bibliography is updated, a map showing the emigrant districts in Guangdong has been added, as well as a glossary of Chinese names and terms mentioned in the book.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780295994079
- 029599407X
- OCLC:
- 881498576
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