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Chinese Poem in the Men's Dormitory
2013-05
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
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