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Chinese Poem in the Men's Dormitory

2013-05

Angel Island Immigration Station

Angel Island Immigration Station
Tiburon, United States

Chinese poem #110 carved into the wooden walls of the barracks, near a window. (Detention Barracks, room 205)

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  • Title: Chinese Poem in the Men's Dormitory
  • Date Created: 2013-05
  • Location Created: Angel Island, Tiburon, California, USA
  • Type: Photograph
  • Rights: Library of Congress
  • Medium: Photograph
  • Translation: A thousand sorrows and a hatred ten-thousand-fold burns between my brows. Hoping to step ashore the American continent is the most difficult of difficulties. The barbarians imprison me in this place. Even a martyr or a hero would change countenance.
  • Photographer: C.M. Highsmith
Angel Island Immigration Station

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