'I came on a ship full of dreams and landed in a cage full of lies'

Title

'I came on a ship full of dreams and landed in a cage full of lies'

Subject

Chinese American Immigration Incarceration Poetry "Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island 1910-1040" "Paper Angels" Lim, Genny Angel Island

Description

The men dream of reuniting with wives, from whom they have been separated, and imagine the new prosperity they will achieve in the new land they hope to enter. But they begin to worry, as their confinement persists, whether they will ever be released from the island. They carved and painted their bitterness into poems on the walls of hte detention center barracks.... -below main title of article.

Creator

Chew, Ron

Publisher

International Examiner

Date

6-Jun-84

Type

INT 2 C44 C16

Identifier

1900.5359

Collection