Published in the United States of America by Cherry Lake Publishing Ann Arbor Michigan www cherrylakepublishing com Consultants Carl L Bankston III Professor Sociology Department Asian Studies Program Tulane University Marla Conn ReadAbility Inc Editorial direction Red Line Editorial Book design Sleeping Bear Press Photo Credits Library of Congress cover left cover middle cover right 1 left 1 middle 1 right 14 24 Bettmann Corbis 4 J D Givens Library of Congress 7 The U S National Archives and Records Administration 8 Carol M Highsmith Library of Congress 11 AP Images 17 30 Corbis 19 Kirn Vintage Stock Corbis 22 Arnold Genthe Library of Congress 27 Robert Galbraith Reuters Corbis 28 Copyright 2015 by Cherry Lake Publishing All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means without written permission from the publisher Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kallio Jamie Angel Island immigration Jamie Kallio pages cm Perspectives library Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN 978-1-63137-614-6 hardcover ISBN 978-1-63137-659-7 pbk ISBN 978-1-63137-704-4 pdf ebook ISBN 978-1-63137-749-5 hosted ebook 1 Angel Island Calif History Juvenile literature 2 Chinese Americans History 20th century Juvenile literature 3 United States Emigration and immigration History 20th century Juvenile literature 4 China Emigration and immigration History 20th century Juvenile literature I Title F868 S156K35 2014 979 462 dc23 2014004580 Cherry Lake Publishing would like to acknowledge the work of The Partnership for 21st Century Skills Please visit www p21 org for more information Printed in the United States of America Corporate Graphics Inc July 2014
Table of Contents In this book you will read about Angel Island immigration from three perspectives Each perspective is based on real things that happened to real people who lived during the years of immigration through Angel Island from 1910 to 1940 As you’ll see the same event can look different depending on one’s point of view Chapter 1 4 Chew Hoy Fong Paper Son Chapter 2 14 Fei Yen Lee Chinese Immigrant Wife Chapter 3 22 Deaconess Eugenia Jean Anderson Missionary Look Look Again 30 Glossary 3 1 Learn More 3 1 Index 32 About the Author 32
1 4 It took us 22 days to reach Angel Island from Hong Kong in 1911 The steamship was the USS Lincoln named after one of the U S presidents We immigrants slept in steerage and had very little room to move The smell from the overused toilets was horrible Many people were seasick Luckily I did not mind the rocking of the ship too much Thoughts of the past and the future kept my mind busy Chew Hoy Fong Paper Son
5 When we came into San Francisco Bay I knew for the first time how far I was from my village back in Guangdong I remembered the last time I saw my family Ma and Ba Amah my three younger sisters and my baby brother standing in front of the house waving goodbye I am the eldest 18 years old After the last flood ruined our crops something had to be done It was decided I would go to gam saan gold mountain Ba had to sell some of his farmland to raise money for the trip Ma and Amah sold embroidery to help Ba even borrowed money from Uncle who is cheap and mean though I would never say this to Ba We had to pay not only my passage but also a special fee to my paper father in the United States My paper father is not related to me He is the cousin of our neighbor He agreed to pretend to be my father so I might get into the United States Those who pay someone in the United States like
