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.
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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.
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New. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 174 p. Contains: Illustrations. Naomi B. Pascal Editor's Endowment. Audience: General/trade. Trade Paperback. Illustrated gray wrappers. Glued binding. 174 pages. Reprint Edition. CONDITION: NEW, in publisher's original shrink wrap. CONTENT: "Island records some of the earliest literary expressions of the Chinese in America: 135 poems written and carved into the barrack walls on Angel Island in San Francisco Bay, where the immigrants were held for weeks and months while undergoing government scrutiny. The period was 1910 to 1940, when Angel Island was known as the Ellis Island of the West."-DJ. >Guaranteed secure packaging, free tracking, and no-hassle return policy.
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