Selected Bibliography
Books
A Teacher's Guide to Angel Island Immigration Station. Angel Island Association. P.O. Box 866, Tiburon, CA 94920. (415) 435-3522.
Angel Island Immigration Station Historical Advisory Committee. Report and Recommendations on Angel Island Immigration Station. San Francisco: 1976.
Bamford, Mary. Angel Island, the Ellis Island of the West. Chicago: Woman's American Baptist Home Mission Society, 1917.
Chetin, Helen. Angel Island Prisoner, 1927. Berkeley: New Seed Press, 1982.
Chow, Christopher & Yu, Connie Young. "Angel Island and Chinese Immigration." San Francisco Journal. June 30, July 21, August 4, 11, 18, 25, 1976; revised version, published April 25, 1979.
Fu, Chi Hao. "My Reception in America." Outlook. August 10, 1907, pp. 770-773.
Lai H.M. "Angel Island Immigration Station." Bridge Magazine. April, 1977, pp. 4-8.
Lai H.M. "The Chinese Experience at Angel Island." East West Chinese American Journal. February 11, 18, 25, 1976.
Lai H.M. "Island of the Immortals: Angel Island Immigration Station and the Chinese Immigrants." California History. Spring 1978, pp. 88-103.
Lai et. al. Island. San Francisco: HOC DOI (History of Chinese Detained on Island), 1980. Reprint University of Washinton Press, 1991.
Lim, Genny & Yung, Judy. "Our Parents Never Told Us." California Living, San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle. January 23, 1977, pp. 6-9.
Lim, Genny. Wings for Lai-Ho. San Francisco: East/West Publisher, 1982.
McCunn, Ruthanne Lum. Chinese American Portraits. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1988.
McCunn, Ruthanne Lum. An Illustrated History of the Chinese in America. . San Francisco: Design Enterprises, 1979.
McDonald, Marshall & Associates. Report and Recommendations on Angel Island. 1769-1966. Oakland: 1966.
Power, Keith. "The Ellis Island of the West." San Francisco Chronicle. November 25, 1974, p. 5.
Sun, Shirley. 7hree Generations of Chinese - East and West. Oakland Museum: 1973, pp. 27-29, 33.
Takaki, Ronald. Strangers from a Different Shore. Boston: Little Brown & Co., 1989.
US. Dept. of Commerce and Labor. Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization. Annual Report of the Commissioner General of Immigration for the Fiscal Year. . . 1910-1913.
US. Dept. of Labor. Annual Report of the Secretary of Labor, For the Fiscal Year. . . 1928-1947.
US. Dept. of Labor. Bureau of Immigration. Annual Report of the Commissioner General of Immigration, for the Fiscal Year. . . 1914-1933.
Wang, Ling-chi. "The Yee Version of Poems from the Chinese Immigration Station." Asian American Review. Berkeley: University of California, 1976, pp. 117-126.
Yu, Connie Young. "Rediscovered Voices: Chinese Immigrants and Angel Island." Amerasia Journal Vol. 4, No. 2, 1977, pp. 123-139.
Yu, Yao Pei. "The Treatment of the Chinese by the United States Immigration Service." Chinese Student. August, 1936.
Yung, Judy. "A Bowlful of Tears: Chinese Women Immigrants on Angel Island." Frontiers. Volume 2, No. 2, 1977, pp. 52-55.
Yung, Judy. Chinese Women of America. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1986.
Yung, Judy. Unbound Feet: A Social History of Chinese Women in San Francisco. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.
Videos
Carved in Silence. A 45-minute documentary about the Chinese experience of detention at Angel Island Immigration Station. FL Productions, PO. Box 460820, San Francisco, CA 94146. (415) 824-4555, Fax (415) 824-3205.
Chinatown. A fascinating hour-long exploration of San Francisco's oldest neighborhood. Available in English and Cantonese. KQED, (800) 358-3000.
Island of Secret Memories. A 20-minute story about a Chinese-American schoolboy who visits Angel Island Immigration Station. KQED Instructional Television, 2601 Mariposa Street, San Francisco, CA 94110. (415) 553-2140. Fax (415) 553-2380.
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