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 | Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, 1910-1940 (Naomi B. Pascal Editor's Endowment) (Reprint Edition) by Him Mark Lai (Editor), Genny Lim (Editor), Judy Yung (Editor) Paperback, 174 Pages, Published 1991 ISBN-10: 0-295-97109-6 / 0295971096 ISBN-13: 978-0-295-97109-4 / 9780295971094 .For thirty years, from 1910 to 1940, Angel Island in San Francisco Bay was the first, often the only, toehold in America for immigrants from China. From the Cantonese Pearl River delta district of Taishan they sailed, fleeing famine and the foreign concessions, bound for the Land of the Flowery Fl | |