Reddit reviews Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, 1910-1940 (Naomi B. Pascal Editor's Endowment)

I found this book on Amazon, and on "Customers who viewed this item also viewed" I found a similar book it's interesting because it allows "Look inside".

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I speak Chinese so I read some of the poems in the 2nd book above. Some sentences in them are just so plain yet touching, like "just hope to get to San Francisco soon"（但愿早登三藩市），"raise my head to see Oakland so close like a few feet away"（仰望屋仑相咫尺）.

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Also it shatters the misconception of mine that all these early Chinese immigrants are uneducated coolie who fled their hometown to the states. They expressed how much they miss their hometown often. And some are written as a highly stylized prose with classical allusions, quotes, antithesis... (For example the one on page 143 of the 2nd book).