| Web Site Review | The Journal of American History, 93.4

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Poetic Waves: Angel Island, http://www.poeticwaves.net/. Created and maintained by Garman Yip. Reviewed July 7–12, 2006.

Poetic Waves is a well-researched interactive Web site that explores the Chinese immigrant experience on Angel Island in San Francisco. It is by far one of the best sites available on the subject. It is well grounded in the history of Chinese immigration during the exclusion era, and it effectively captures the legal and emotional bind that many Chinese immigrants faced at that time. They were driven by economic and personal needs to come to the United States, yet they were barred by immigration laws that singled them out for exclusion. A focus of the site is the poetry that some immigrants carved and wrote on the detention barracks walls in the immigration station on the island. Many expressed anger and despair at the harshness of their condition, mostly a product of the U.S. government's enforcement of the discriminatory Chinese Exclusion Laws (in effect from 1882–1943). Garman Yip, the child of Chinese immigrants, created the site while earning a master of fine arts in new media at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco.

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