Associate Professor of English and Assistant Dean of Faculty for Diversity Initiatives Steven Yao has co-edited a volume of essays titled Sinographies: Writing China, published by the University of Minnesota Press. The volume includes an essay by Yao titled "Transplantation and Modernity: The Chinese/American Poems of Angel Island." It discusses the poetry inscribed upon the walls of the Angel Island Immigration Station Detention building in San Francisco Bay, the site of entry for the vast majority of the 175,000 Chinese immigrants to the U.S. between 1910 and 1940.
The book was co-edited with Eric Hayot, associate professor of comparative literature at Pennsylvania State University and Haun Saussy, Bird White Housum Professor of Comparative Literature at Yale University.
The book was co-edited with Eric Hayot, associate professor of comparative literature at Pennsylvania State University and Haun Saussy, Bird White Housum Professor of Comparative Literature at Yale University.
