Island

By Genny Lim, Judy Yung, Him Mark Lai

Subjects: United states, emigration and immigration, Emigration and immigration in literature, North America, Translations into English, Immigrants, united states, North & Central American indigenous languages, Sources, Immigrants, Chinese poetry, translations into english, 20th century, Chinese poetry, Chinese, united states, Chinese, Angel Island Immigration Station (Calif.), Poetry anthologies: from c 1900 -, Translations from Chinese, United States, Ethnic American Literatures, American - Asian American, Emigration and immigration, Asian, History and criticism, American poetry, History - General History, Chinese Translations, Ethnic Studies - Asian American Studies, Poetry, History, Immigrants' writings, Chinese, Angel Island Immigration Station

Description: 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 have been found on the walls of the immigration stations at Ellis Island in New York ad Victoria, B.C. 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 a report commissioned by the Angel Island Immigration Foundation. 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 the National Archives, San Francisco.