TravelMap

Legend

Mrs. Spring Fragrance by Eaton/Far
from unincorporated territory [guma]
The Refugees

Hue, Vietnam ‐ Dec 15, 2023
- United States, United States ‐ Dec 15, 2023
  
  “ I said I have a Vietnamese soul. It’s a figure of speech. It’s an expression. It means I think I’ve found someplace where I can do some good and make up for some of the things you’ve done…You bombed this place. Have you ever thought about how many people you killed? The thousands? The tens of thousands?” (Nguyen “The Americans”)
Vietnam
- United States, United States
  
  “‘So how did he get here?’ / ‘He swam.’ She gave me a pitying look. ‘That’s why he was wet.’” (Nguyen, “Black Eyed Woman”)
Montreal, Canada ‐ Dec 5, 2023

“Fin Fan was Tian Shan’s kindred spirit. She was the daughter of a Canadian Chinese storekeeper”(Tian Shan’s Kindred Sprit, Eaton, p.153) and “[H]e [Tian Shan] was going to relinquish the pleasure of running backwards and forwards across the border, for some time at least.” (Eaton, p. 154)
- Burlington, United States ‐ Dec 5, 2023
  
  “Had Tian Shan been an American… his daring exploits and thrilling adventures would have furnished inspiration for many a newspaper and magazine article, novel, and short story” (Eaton, p.152)
- Ningbo, China ‐ Dec 5, 2023
Guangzhou, China

“Five years before in a suburb of Canton City they had said to one another: ‘I love you.’” (The God of Restoration, Eaton, p.137)
- San Francisco, United States
  
  “Koan-Lo the First was one of the wealthiest Chinese merchants in San Francisco” (Eaton, p.137)
- San Francisco Bay, United States
  
  “Koan-lo the Second had been instructed by Koan-lo the First to meet Sie, the latter’s bride, who was arriving that day by steamer from China.” (Eaton, p.137)
Ottawa, Canada

“Amongst the daring men who engage in contrabanding Chinese from Canada into the United States Jack Fabian ranks as the boldest in deed.” (The Smuggling of Tie Co, Eaton, p. 132)
- Watertown, United States
  
  “‘Yes, I want to go,’ replied Tie Co. ‘I want to go to New York and I will pay you fifty dollars… if you take me” (Eaton, p.133)
Fuzhou City, China ‐ Nov 22, 2023

“When my wife told me one morning that she dreamed of a green tree with spreading branches… I answered her that I wished my son to be born in our country, and for her to prepare to go to China.” (122, Eaton “The Land of the Free”)
- San Francisco Bay, United States ‐ Nov 22, 2023
  
  “See, Little one — the hills in the morning sun. There is thy home for years to come.” (Eaton p.120)
Wenzhou
- Seattle, United States
  
  “When Wan Hom Hung came to Seattle… he brought with him his nephew, Wan Lin Fo” (The Americanizing of Pau Tsu, Eaton, p.111)
- Seattle, United States
  
  “Pau Tsu came with the spring, and Wan Lin Fo was one of the happiest and proudest of bridegrooms.” (Eaton p.112)
Shantou

“The place was a sleepy little south coast town where the years slipped by monotonously.” (The Wisdom of the New, Eaton, p.61)
- San Francisco, United States
  
  “Wou Sankwei made up his mind that he would go to America, the land beyond the sea… He had been in America seven years and had made good use of his time.” (Eaton p.62)
  - Shantou
    
    “I have lost my boy through an accident. I am returning to China with my wife whose health requires a change.”
- San Francisco, United States
  
  “Pau Lin, the wife of Wou Sankew, sat in a corner of the deck of the big steamer, awaiting the coming of her husband” (Eaton p.64)
China

Mrs. Spring Fragrance
- Seattle, United States
  
  “When Mrs. Spring first arrived in Seattle, she was unacquainted with even one word of the American language. Five years later her husband, speaking of her, said: ‘There are no more American words for her learning.’” (Eaton p.35)
  - San Francisco, United States
    
    “Mrs. Spring Fragrance, in San Francisco on a visit to her cousin… was having a good time.”
  - Portland, United States
    
    “‘This is from Mary Carman, who is in Portland’” (p.54 Eaton)
- Angel Island, United States
  
  “And murmur no more because your honored elder brother, on a visit to this country, is detained under the roof-tree of this great Government” (Eaton p.40)
Guam, United States ‐ Nov 20, 2023

“From unincorporated territory [saina]”, Craig Santos Perez
- Indonesia, Indonesia ‐ Nov 20, 2023
  
  The ancestors of the Chamorro are thought to have come to the Mariana Islands from insular Southeast Asia (Indonesia and the Philippines) about 1600 bce.
- Philippines, Philippines ‐ Nov 20, 2023
  
  See above
- Spain, Spain ‐ Nov 21, 2023
  
  “following the chamarro-spanish wars [1671-1698] the spanish colonists began destroying the salmon and forbade Chamorros to sail the ocean” (Perez p.14)
- Pearl Harbor, United States ‐ Nov 21, 2023
  
  “After u.s. ‘liberation’ of Guam, the airstrip renamed ‘Agana airfield’ and used as a base for air force’s 11th bombardment group” (Perez p.87)
- San Francisco, United States ‐ Nov 21, 2023
  
  Perez moves to California with family
- Japan, Japan ‐ Nov 21, 2023
  
  “1943: An airstrip built in the village of titan by forced Chamorro labor battalions during Japanese occupation” (Perez p.87) “1969: Nearly 58,000 Japanese arrive; occupy 1,000 hotel rooms” (Perez, p. 88)