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Angel Island Immigration Station in San Francisco Bay, the Pacific gateway where hundreds of thousands of immigrants, including many from Wuyi, were processed and detained between 1910 and 1940
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Chinese Immigration Records in the United States: How to Find Your Wuyi Ancestor

Between 1848 and the early twentieth century, the Wuyi (五邑, Wǔyì, the "five counties") region of Guangdong — Taishan (台山, Táishān), Kaiping (开平, Kāipíng), Enping (恩平, Ēnpíng), Xinhui (新会, Xīnhuì), and Heshan (鹤山, Hèshān) — sent an outsized share of the Chinese who crossed the Pacific to the United States. Whole villages emptied their young…
August 27, 20260Comments

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Carved Chinese poems in vertical calligraphy on the dark wooden wall of the Angel Island Immigration Station detention barracks
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Angel Island Chinese Immigration: The Wooden House and the Carved Poems of the Excluded (1910–1940)

Angel Island Chinese Immigration: The Wooden House and the Carved Poems of the Excluded (1910–1940) The Wooden House on the Pacific Gate Between January 21, 1910, and October 1940, a wooded island in San Francisco Bay served as the Pacific gate of the Chinese Exclusion Act (排華法案, Pái Huá Fǎ'àn). Angel Island Chinese immigration was…
August 20, 20260Comments

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