Engage YourStory

Click below to explore self-directed expressive arts experiences to engage your story with Chinese American narratives. This section is under construction, thanks for your patience.

“Poems, thousands and thousands, written all over the walls: all words of grievances and sorrow. Should we one day be freed from this prison and prosper with success, treasure the memory: marks of all those years.”

— Poem on the walls of the Angel Island internment barracks by unknown poet sometime between 1910 and 1930, translated by Marlon Hom