Associate Professor of English and Assistant Dean of Faculty for Diversity Initiatives Steven Yao presented a paper at the Globalizing Modern Chinese Literature: Sinophone and Diasporic Writings conference held at Harvard University on December 6-8.
His paper, "Transplantation and Modernity: The Chinese/American Poems of Angel Island," discussed the intricate weave of diverse historical, social and cultural contexts in both China and the United States against which the "Island" poems gain their complex significance. These classical Chinese poems were carved on the walls of the Angel Island Immigration Station detention building in San Francisco Bay between 1910 and 1940, during a period when the policy of Chinese exclusion was still in force.
His paper, "Transplantation and Modernity: The Chinese/American Poems of Angel Island," discussed the intricate weave of diverse historical, social and cultural contexts in both China and the United States against which the "Island" poems gain their complex significance. These classical Chinese poems were carved on the walls of the Angel Island Immigration Station detention building in San Francisco Bay between 1910 and 1940, during a period when the policy of Chinese exclusion was still in force.
