| chinese railroad workers history center: Ghosts of Gold Mountain Gordon H. Chang, 2019 Guangdong -- Gold Mountain -- Central Pacific -- Foothills -- The High Sierra -- The Summit -- The Strike -- Truckee -- The Golden Spike -- Beyond Promontory. |
| chinese railroad workers history center: Empire's Tracks Manu Karuka, 2019-01-29 Empire’s Tracks boldly reframes the history of the transcontinental railroad from the perspectives of the Cheyenne, Lakota, and Pawnee Native American tribes, and the Chinese migrants who toiled on its path. In this meticulously researched book, Manu Karuka situates the railroad within the violent global histories of colonialism and capitalism. Through an examination of legislative, military, and business records, Karuka deftly explains the imperial foundations of U.S. political economy. Tracing the shared paths of Indigenous and Asian American histories, this multisited interdisciplinary study connects military occupation to exclusionary border policies, a linked chain spanning the heart of U.S. imperialism. This highly original and beautifully wrought book unveils how the transcontinental railroad laid the tracks of the U.S. Empire. |
| chinese railroad workers history center: Chinese American Voices Judy Yung, Gordon H. Chang, H. Mark Lai, 2006 Offering a textured history of the Chinese in America since their arrival during the California Gold Rush, this work includes letters, speeches, testimonies, oral histories, personal memoirs, poems, essays, and folksongs. It provides an insight into immigration, work, family and social life, and the longstanding fight for equality and inclusion. |
| chinese railroad workers history center: Railroads and the Transformation of China Elisabeth Köll, 2019-01-14 As a vehicle to convey both the history of modern China and the complex forces still driving the nation’s economic success, rail has no equal. Railroads and the Transformation of China is the first comprehensive history, in any language, of railroad operation from the last decades of the Qing Empire to the present. China’s first fractured lines were built under semicolonial conditions by competing foreign investors. The national system that began taking shape in the 1910s suffered all the ills of the country at large: warlordism and Japanese invasion, Chinese partisan sabotage, the Great Leap Forward when lines suffered in the “battle for steel,” and the Cultural Revolution, during which Red Guards were granted free passage to “make revolution” across the country, nearly collapsing the system. Elisabeth Köll’s expansive study shows how railroads survived the rupture of the 1949 Communist revolution and became an enduring model of Chinese infrastructure expansion. The railroads persisted because they were exemplary bureaucratic institutions. Through detailed archival research and interviews, Köll builds case studies illuminating the strength of rail administration. Pragmatic management, combining central authority and local autonomy, sustained rail organizations amid shifting political and economic priorities. As Köll shows, rail provided a blueprint for the past forty years of ambitious, semipublic business development and remains an essential component of the PRC’s politically charged, technocratic economic model for China’s future. |
| chinese railroad workers history center: Finding Hidden Voices of the Chinese Railroad Workers Mary L. Maniery, Rebecca Allen, Sarah Christine Heffner, 2016-03-15 Archaeologists and historians trace the steps of Chinese railroad workers, find evidence of their daily lives, and work to keep the knowledge of their achievements alive for future generations. |
| chinese railroad workers history center: Zhi Lin Rock Hushka, Shawn Wong, Shelley Fisher Fishkin, 2017 Zhi Lin in conversation : giving form to absence / Interview by Rock Hushka -- In this place history is retrieved / Shawn Wong -- Seeing absence, evoking presence : history and the art of Zhi Lin / Shelley Fisher Fishkin |
| chinese railroad workers history center: Traqueros Jeffrey Marcos Garcilazo, 2012 Perhaps no other industrial technology changed the course of Mexican history in the United States--and Mexico--than did the coming of the railroads. Tens of thousands of Mexicans worked for the railroads in the United States, especially in the Southwest and Midwest. Construction crews soon became railroad workers proper, along with maintenance crews later. Extensive Mexican American settlements appeared throughout the lower and upper Midwest as the result of the railroad. The substantial Mexican American populations in these regions today are largely attributable to 19th- and 20th-century railroad work. Only agricultural work surpassed railroad work in terms of employment of Mexicans. The full history of Mexican American railroad labor and settlement in the United States had not been told, however, until Jeffrey Marcos Garcílazo's groundbreaking research in Traqueros. Garcílazo mined numerous archives and other sources to provide the first and only comprehensive history of Mexican railroad workers across the United States, with particular attention to the Midwest. He first explores the origins and process of Mexican labor recruitment and immigration and then describes the areas of work performed. He reconstructs the workers' daily lives and explores not only what the workers did on the job but also what they did at home and how they accommodated and/or resisted Americanization. Boxcar communities, strike organizations, and traquero culture finally receive historical acknowledgment. Integral to his study is the importance of family settlement in shaping working class communities and consciousness throughout the Midwest. |
| chinese railroad workers history center: Ten Mile Day Mary Ann Fraser, 2016-08-02 On May 10, 1869, the final spike in North America's first transcontinental railroad was driven home at Promontory Summit, Utah. Illustrated with the author's carefully researched, evocative paintings, here is a great adventure story in the history of the American West--the day Charles Crocker staked $10,000 on the crews' ability to lay a world record ten miles of track in a single, Ten Mile Day. |
| chinese railroad workers history center: Asian Americans [3 volumes] Xiaojian Zhao, Edward J.W. Park Ph.D., 2013-11-26 This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date reference work on Asian Americans, comprising three volumes that address a broad range of topics on various Asian and Pacific Islander American groups from 1848 to the present day. This three-volume work represents a leading reference resource for Asian American studies that gives students, researchers, librarians, teachers, and other interested readers the ability to easily locate accurate, up-to-date information about Asian ethnic groups, historical and contemporary events, important policies, and notable individuals. Written by leading scholars in their fields of expertise and authorities in diverse professions, the entries devote attention to diverse Asian and Pacific Islander American groups as well as the roles of women, distinct socioeconomic classes, Asian American political and social movements, and race relations involving Asian Americans. |
| chinese railroad workers history center: The Mississippi Chinese James W. Loewen, 1988-01-01 This scholarly, carefully researched book studies one of the most overlooked minority groups in Americathe Chinese of the Mississippi Delta. During Reconstruction, white plantation owners imported Chinese sharecroppers in the hope of replacing their black laborers. In the beginning they were classed with blacks. But the Chinese soon moved into the towns and became almost without exception, owners of small groceries. Loewen details their astounding transition from black to essentially white status with an insight seldom found in studies of race relationships in the Deep South. |
| chinese railroad workers history center: China Men Maxine Hong Kingston, 1989-04-23 The author chronicles the lives of three generations of Chinese men in America, woven from memory, myth and fact. Here's a storyteller's tale of what they endured in a strange new land. |
| chinese railroad workers history center: Lines of the Nation Laura Bear, 2007 Lines of the Nation radically recasts the history of the Indian railways, which have long been regarded as vectors of modernity and economic prosperity. From the design of carriages to the architecture of stations, employment hierarchies, and the construction of employee housing, Laura Bear explores the new public spaces and social relationships created by the railway bureaucracy. She then traces their influence on the formation of contemporary Indian nationalism, personal sentiments, and popular memory. Her probing study challenges entrenched beliefs concerning the institutions of modernity and capitalism by showing that these rework older idioms of social distinction and are legitimized by forms of intimate, affective politics. Drawing on historical and ethnographic research in the company town at Kharagpur and at the Eastern Railway headquarters in Kolkata (Calcutta), Bear focuses on how political and domestic practices among workers became entangled with the moralities and archival technologies of the railway bureaucracy and illuminates the impact of this history today. The bureaucracy has played a pivotal role in the creation of idioms of family history, kinship, and ethics, and its special categorization of Anglo-Indian workers still resonates. Anglo-Indians were formed as a separate railway caste by Raj-era racial employment and housing policies, and other railway workers continue to see them as remnants of the colonial past and as a polluting influence. The experiences of Anglo-Indians, who are at the core of the ethnography, reveal the consequences of attempts to make political communities legitimate in family lines and sentiments. Their situation also compels us to rethink the importance of documentary practices and nationalism to all family histories and senses of relatedness. This interdisciplinary anthropological history throws new light not only on the imperial and national past of South Asia but also on the moral life of present technologies and economic institutions. |
| chinese railroad workers history center: Driven Out Jean Pfaelzer, 2008-08 This sweeping and groundbreaking work presents the shocking and violent history of ethnic cleansing against Chinese Americans from the Gold Rush era to the turn of the century. |
| chinese railroad workers history center: Fateful Ties Gordon H. Chang, 2015-04-13 Americans look to China with fascination and fear, unsure whether the rising Asian power is friend or foe but certain it will play a crucial role in America’s future. This is nothing new, Gordon Chang says. For centuries, Americans have been convinced of China’s importance to their own national destiny. Fateful Ties draws on literature, art, biography, popular culture, and politics to trace America’s long and varied preoccupation with China. China has held a special place in the American imagination from colonial times, when Jamestown settlers pursued a passage to the Pacific and Asia. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Americans plied a profitable trade in Chinese wares, sought Chinese laborers to build the West, and prized China’s art and decor. China was revered for its ancient culture but also drew Christian missionaries intent on saving souls in a heathen land. Its vast markets beckoned expansionists, even as its migrants were seen as a “yellow peril” that prompted the earliest immigration restrictions. A staunch ally during World War II, China was a dangerous adversary in the Cold War that followed. In the post-Mao era, Americans again embraced China as a land of inexhaustible opportunity, playing a central role in its economic rise. Through portraits of entrepreneurs, missionaries, academics, artists, diplomats, and activists, Chang demonstrates how ideas about China have long been embedded in America’s conception of itself and its own fate. Fateful Ties provides valuable perspective on this complex international and intercultural relationship as America navigates an uncertain new era. |
| chinese railroad workers history center: The Chinese Must Go Beth Lew-Williams, 2018-02-26 Beth Lew-Williams shows how American immigration policies incited violence against Chinese workers, and how that violence provoked new exclusionary policies. Locating the origins of the modern American alien in this violent era, she makes clear that the present resurgence of xenophobia builds mightily upon past fears of the heathen Chinaman. |
| chinese railroad workers history center: Escape to Gold Mountain David H. T. Wong, 2012 An epic graphic novel about the experience of Chinese immigrants in North America over the past 150 years. |
| chinese railroad workers history center: The Chinese in America Iris Chang, 2004-03-30 A quintessiantially American story chronicling Chinese American achievement in the face of institutionalized racism by the New York Times bestselling author of The Rape of Nanking In an epic story that spans 150 years and continues to the present day, Iris Chang tells of a people’s search for a better life—the determination of the Chinese to forge an identity and a destiny in a strange land and, often against great obstacles, to find success. She chronicles the many accomplishments in America of Chinese immigrants and their descendents: building the infrastructure of their adopted country, fighting racist and exclusionary laws and anti-Asian violence, contributing to major scientific and technological advances, expanding the literary canon, and influencing the way we think about racial and ethnic groups. Interweaving political, social, economic, and cultural history, as well as the stories of individuals, Chang offers a bracing view not only of what it means to be Chinese American, but also of what it is to be American. |
| chinese railroad workers history center: Nothing Like It In the World Stephen E. Ambrose, 2001-11-06 The story of the men who build the transcontinental railroad in the 1860's. |
| chinese railroad workers history center: Nameless Builders of the Transcontinental Railway William F. Chew, 2004 A historical study of the Chinese railroad workers using data from the Central Pacific Railroad Company payroll records dating from 1864 to 1867, correcting the first date of Chinese by the Central Pacific, and the total number of workers employed, with an explanation of how this estimate was calculated. Nearly one thousand workers are named, listing their wages and occupations, dispelling the notion that all Chinese workers were coolies. A synopsis is extrapolated from previously published works along with arguments for and against the data of some historical events, such as Bloomer Cut and Cape Horn. In addition, the building of the Summit Tunnels, and the laying of ten miles of track in one day are detailed. Particular focus is applied to the little known 1,330 Chinese fatalities which occurred while building the western route of the transcontinental, comparing these numbers to the total lives claimed by other major historical construction projects. |
| chinese railroad workers history center: Chinese in the Woods Sue Fawn Chung, 2015-09-30 Though recognized for their work in the mining and railroad industries, the Chinese also played a critical role in the nineteenth-century lumber trade. Sue Fawn Chung continues her acclaimed examination of the impact of Chinese immigrants on the American West by bringing to life the tensions, towns, and lumber camps of the Sierra Nevada during a boom period of economic expansion. Chinese workers labored as woodcutters and flume-herders, lumberjacks and loggers. Exploding the myth of the Chinese as a docile and cheap labor army, Chung shows Chinese laborers earned wages similar to those of non-Asians. Men working as camp cooks, among other jobs, could make even more. At the same time, she draws on archives and archaeology to reconstruct everyday existence, offering evocative portraits of camp living, small town life, personal and work relationships, and the production and technical aspects of a dangerous trade. Chung also explores how Chinese used the legal system to win property and wage rights and how economic and technological change ultimately diminished Chinese participation in the lumber industry. Eye-opening and meticulous, Chinese in the Woods rewrites an important chapter in the history of labor and the American West. |
| chinese railroad workers history center: Inventing the Immigration Problem Katherine Benton-Cohen, 2018-05-07 In 1907 the U.S. Congress created a joint commission to investigate what many Americans saw as a national crisis: an unprecedented number of immigrants flowing into the United States. Experts—women and men trained in the new field of social science—fanned out across the country to collect data on these fresh arrivals. The trove of information they amassed shaped how Americans thought about immigrants, themselves, and the nation’s place in the world. Katherine Benton-Cohen argues that the Dillingham Commission’s legacy continues to inform the ways that U.S. policy addresses questions raised by immigration, over a century later. Within a decade of its launch, almost all of the commission’s recommendations—including a literacy test, a quota system based on national origin, the continuation of Asian exclusion, and greater federal oversight of immigration policy—were implemented into law. Inventing the Immigration Problem describes the labyrinthine bureaucracy, broad administrative authority, and quantitative record-keeping that followed in the wake of these regulations. Their implementation marks a final turn away from an immigration policy motivated by executive-branch concerns over foreign policy and toward one dictated by domestic labor politics. The Dillingham Commission—which remains the largest immigration study ever conducted in the United States—reflects its particular moment in time when mass immigration, the birth of modern social science, and an aggressive foreign policy fostered a newly robust and optimistic notion of federal power. Its quintessentially Progressive formulation of America’s immigration problem, and its recommendations, endure today in almost every component of immigration policy, control, and enforcement. |
| chinese railroad workers history center: The Filth of Progress Ryan Dearinger, 2015-10-30 The Filth of Progress explores the untold side of a well-known American story. For more than a century, accounts of progress in the West foregrounded the technological feats performed while canals and railroads were built and lionized the capitalists who financed the projects. This book salvages stories often omitted from the triumphant narrative of progress by focusing on the suffering and survival of the workers who were treated as outsiders. Ryan Dearinger examines the moving frontiers of canal and railroad construction workers in the tumultuous years of American expansion, from the completion of the Erie Canal in 1825 to the joining of the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads in 1869. He tells the story of the immigrants and Americans—the Irish, Chinese, Mormons, and native-born citizens—whose labor created the West’s infrastructure and turned the nation’s dreams of a continental empire into a reality. Dearinger reveals that canals and railroads were not static monuments to progress but moving spaces of conflict and contestation. |
| chinese railroad workers history center: Climate of British Columbia , 1928 |
| chinese railroad workers history center: Railroaded Richard White, 2012-03-27 A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize A powerful book, crowded with telling details and shrewd observations. —Michael Kazin, New York Times Book Review The transcontinental railroads were the first corporate behemoths. Their attempts to generate profits from proliferating debt sparked devastating economic panics. Their dependence on public largesse drew them into the corridors of power, initiating new forms of corruption. Their operations rearranged space and time, remade the landscape of the West, and opened new ways of life and work. Their discriminatory rates sparked a new antimonopoly politics. The transcontinentals were pivotal actors in the making of modern America, but the triumphal myths of the golden spike, Robber Barons larger than life, and an innovative capitalism all die here. Instead we have a new vision of the Gilded Age, often darkly funny, that shows history to be rooted in failure as well as success. |
| chinese railroad workers history center: Beyond the Mississippi Albert Deane Richardson, 1869 |
| chinese railroad workers history center: Empire Express David Haward Bain, 2000-09-01 After the Civil War, the building of the transcontinental railroad was the nineteenth century's most transformative event. Beginning in 1842 with a visionary's dream to span the continent with twin bands of iron, Empire Express captures three dramatic decades in which the United States effectively doubled in size, fought three wars, and began to discover a new national identity. From self--made entrepreneurs such as the Union Pacific's Thomas Durant and era--defining figures such as President Lincoln to the thousands of laborers whose backbreaking work made the railroad possible, this extraordinary narrative summons an astonishing array of voices to give new dimension not only to this epic endeavor but also to the culture, political struggles, and social conflicts of an unforgettable period in American history. |
| chinese railroad workers history center: The Celestial Railroad and Other Stories Nathaniel Hawthorne, 2006-08-01 Of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s insight into the Puritan’s simultaneous need for fulfillment and self-destruction, D. H. Lawrence wrote, “Nathaniel knew disagreeable things in his inner soul. He was careful to send them out in disguise.” By means of artfully crafted and compelling tales, Hawthorne explored the destinies and concerns of early American settlers and citizens. In several of the stories in this collection, characters who hold themselves apart from their fellow man fall prey to the corroding desires of lust for perfection. Then they unwittingly commit evils—against themselves and others—in the name of pride. Edgar Allan Poe noted of Hawthorne’s writing: “Every word tells, and there is not a word which does not tell.” |
| chinese railroad workers history center: A Life of Picasso John Richardson, 2007 A three-volume study of the life and work of Pablo Picasso captures the artist from his early life in Mâalaga and Barcelona, through his revolutionary Cubist period, to the height of his talent in prewar Europe. |
| chinese railroad workers history center: Living the California Dream Alison Rose Jefferson, 2022 2020 Miriam Matthews Ethnic History Award from the Los Angeles City Historical Society Alison Rose Jefferson examines how African Americans pioneered America’s “frontier of leisure” by creating communities and business projects in conjunction with their growing population in Southern California during the nation’s Jim Crow era. |
| chinese railroad workers history center: Denver’s Chinatown 1875-1900 Jingyi Song, 2019-10-29 Denver’s Chinatown 1875-1900: Gone But Not Forgotten explores the coming of the Chinese to the Western frontier and their experiences in Denver during its early development from a supply station for the mining camps to a flourishing urban center. The complexity of race, class, immigration, politics, and economic policies interacted dynamically and influenced the life of early Chinese settlers in Denver. The Denver Riot, as a consequence of political hostility and racial antagonism against the Chinese, transformed the life of Denver’s Chinese, eventually leading to the disappearance of Denver's Chinatown. But the memory of a neighborhood that was part of the colorful and booming urban center remains. |
| chinese railroad workers history center: To America Stephen E. Ambrose, 2002 The popular historian shares his views of his own life and on the history of America, in a series of reflections on the Founding Fathers, Native Americans, Theodore Roosevelt, World War II, civil rights, Vietnam, and the writing of history. |
| chinese railroad workers history center: After Promontory Center for Railroad Photography and Art, 2019-03-01 Celebrating the sesquicentennial anniversary of the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States , After Promontory: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Transcontinental Railroading profiles the history and heritage of this historic event. Starting with the original Union Pacific—Central Pacific lines that met at Promontory Summit, Utah, in 1869, the book expands the narrative by considering all of the transcontinental routes in the United States and examining their impact on building this great nation. Exquisitely illustrated with full color photographs, After Promontory divides the western United States into three regions—central, southern, and northern—and offers a deep look at the transcontinental routes of each one. Renowned railroad historians Maury Klein, Keith Bryant, and Don Hofsommer offer their perspectives on these regions along with contributors H. Roger Grant and Rob Krebs. |
| chinese railroad workers history center: The Indispensable Enemy Alexander Saxton, 2023-04-28 Winner, Silver Medal, California Book Awards—Commonwealth Club of California With a foreword by William DeverellThe Indispensable Enemy examines the anti-Chinese confrontation on the Pacific Coast as it was experienced and rationalized by the white majority. Focusing on the Democratic party and the labor movement of California through the forty-year period after the Civil War, Alexander Saxton explores aspects of the Jacksonian background which proves crucial to an understanding of what occurred in California. The Indispensable Enemy looks beyond the turn of the 19th century to trace results of the sequence of events in the West for the labor movement as a whole, influencing events that led to the crystallization of an American concept of national identity. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1996. Winner, Silver Medal, California Book Awards—Commonwealth Club of California With a foreword by William DeverellThe Indispensable Enemy examines the anti-Chinese confrontation on the Pacific Coast as it was experienced and rationalized by the white majori |
| chinese railroad workers history center: The Dance and the Railroad ; And, Family Devotions David Henry Hwang, 1983 THE STORIES: THE DANCE AND THE RAILROAD. While his fellow workers are striking for higher pay, Lone, once an actor in China, exercises and practices alone on a mountaintop the ritual gestures used in Chinese opera. Ma, a slightly younger man, who w |
| chinese railroad workers history center: A Great and Shining Road John Hoyt Williams, 1996-01-01 The Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads were officially joined on May 10, 1869 at Promontory Point, Utah, with the driving of a golden spike. This historic ceremony marked the completion of the first transcontinental railroad. Spanning the Sierras and the “Great American Desert,” the tracks connected San Francisco to Council Bluffs, Iowa. A Great and Shining Road is the exciting story of a mammoth feat that called forth entrepreneurial daring, financial wizardry, technological innovation, political courage and chicanery, and the heroism of thousands of laborers. |
| chinese railroad workers history center: The Peoples of Utah Utah State Historical Society, 1976 Contains histories of some of the minorities in Utah. |
| chinese railroad workers history center: The Voices We Carry J. S. Park, 2020-05-05 Reclaim Your Headspace and Find Your One True Voice As a hospital chaplain, J.S. Park encountered hundreds of patients at the edge of life and death, listening as they urgently shared their stories, confessions, and final words. J.S. began to identify patterns in his patients’ lives—patterns he also saw in his own life. He began to see that the events and traumas we experience throughout life become deafening voices that remain within us, even when the events are far in the past. He was surprised to find that in hearing the voices of his patients, he began to identify his own voices and all the ways they could both harm and heal. In The Voices We Carry, J.S. draws from his experiences as a hospital chaplain to present the Voices Model. This model explores the four internal voices of self-doubt, pride, people-pleasing, and judgment, and the four external voices of trauma, guilt, grief, and family dynamics. He also draws from his Asian-American upbringing to examine the challenges of identity and feeling “other.” J.S. outlines how to wrestle with our voices, and even befriend them, how to find our authentic voice in a world of mixed messages, and how to empower those who are voiceless. Filled with evidence-based research, spiritual and psychological insights, and stories of patient encounters, The Voices We Carry is an inspiring memoir of unexpected growth, humor, and what matters most. For those wading through a world of clamor and noise, this is a guide to find your clear, steady voice. |
| chinese railroad workers history center: Over the Range Richard V. Francaviglia, 2008-10-31 The 1869 meeting of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads at Promontory Summit (not Promontory Point, where it often is mistakenly placed) was, both literally and symbolically, a historical event of indisputable significance in American history. Richard Francaviglia reviews May 10, 1869, and what led to that day, but from there his narrative launches into space and time to consider the geographic history of the event and where it occurred, on the spine of the lonely Promontory Range at the northern end of the Great Salt Lake. What we consequently learn is the stories of the transportation corridor that developed across Promontory and of the society of people who settled that remote, and frontier, many of them connected to the railroad. Francaviglia reaches back farther than 1869 and carries his story forward to the present, including the development of Golden Spike National Historic Site. At the center of his narrative is the conjunction of a unique area (the Promontory Mountains and the Great Salt Lake) and the impact and legacy, particularly regionally, of a special event. The growth of geographical knowledge linked these historical dimensions, as maps best show. A cartographic history of the Promontory Range, northern Utah, the railroad, and other transportation lines has an integral part in Francaviglia's account, and the book is copiously illustrated with color maps as well as historical and scenic photos.--BOOK JACKET. |
| chinese railroad workers history center: China Through American Eyes: Early Depictions Of The Chinese People And Culture In The Us Print Media Wenxian Zhang, 2018-02-20 Cultural understanding between the United States and China has been a long and complex process. The period from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth century is not only a critical era in modern Chinese history, but also the peak time of illustrated news reporting in the United States. Besides images from newspapers and journals, this collection also contains pictures about China and the Chinese published in books, brochures, commercial advertisements, campaign posters, postcards, etc. Together, they have documented colourful portrayals of the Chinese and their culture by the U.S. print media and their evolution from ethnic curiosity, stereotyping, and racial prejudice to social awareness, reluctant understanding, and eventual acceptance. Since these publications represent different positions in American politics, they can help contemporary readers develop a more comprehensive understanding of major events in modern American and Chinese histories, such as the cause and effect of the Chinese Exclusion Act and the power struggles behind the development of the Open Door Policy at the turn of the twentieth century. This collection of images has essentially formed a rich visual resource that is both diverse and intriguing; and as primary source documents, they carry significant historical and cultural values that could stimulate further academic research. |
| chinese railroad workers history center: Oral History Collections Alan M. Meckler, Ruth McMullin, 1975 |
The Historical Experience of Labor: Archaeological …
国铁路工人之跨学科研究的贡献 ABSTRACT Since the 1960s, archaeologists have studied the work camps of Chinese immigrant and Chinese A. erican laborers who built the railroads of the …
CHINESE
This picture offers a powerful image of how railroad workers, and especially Chinese railroad workers, have been represented throughout history. The figures can be seen at work but their …
Stanford scholars seek documents from Chinese workers who …
Between 1865 and 1869, thousands of Chinese migrants toiled at a grueling pace and in perilous working conditions to help construct America's First Transcontinental Railroad. At any given …
Archives, Photography, and Historical Memory
Stanford University’s Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project includes the production of a digital archive containing the most comprehensive collection of archival materials related …
Organizing Questions Introduction Chinese RailRoa - Amazon …
• How did Chinese railroad workers contribute to the first Transcontinental Railroad and help shape the landscape of the American West? • How do scholars interpret the past without first …
Chinese Railroad Workers: Their Contributions to an Industrial …
Objectives: Students will understand how Chinese labor impacted geographic, economic, social and demographic trends in America to 1877. Students will understand how the …
Chinese Railroad Workers, the Transcontinental Railroad, and …
Asian migration to America began with Chinese railroad workers on the transcontinental railroad (1862-1869). Their labor saved the foundering Central Pacific Railroad, challenged by building …
Fragments of the Past: Archaeology, History, and the Chinese …
In 1865 the Central Pacific Railroad Company introduced large numbers of Chinese workers on the western portion of the first transcontinental railway across North America.
THE CHINESE RAILROAD WORKERS MEMORIAL PROJECT
America’s First Transcontinental Railroad. The Chinese Railroad Workers Memorial Monument Project seeks to give a recognized solemn tribute to the Chinese migrants who lost their lives …
'The Epic Story of Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad'
Jul 25, 2019 · U.S. Labor Department formally inducted the Chinese workers who helped build the transcontinental railroad into its Hall of Honor, giving them a place in American labor history …
Stories by Descendants of Chinese Railroad Workers
CHSA is working closely with Stanford University’s Chinese Railroad Worker Project of North America to record and document stories of railroad workers through the oral history passed …
Uncovering and Understanding the Experiences of Chinese …
In the ensuing years, such a chapter was largely erased from American political and historical narratives, and the study below aims to shed new light on recent research and materials to …
Forgotten Chinese Railroad Workers Remembered: Closing …
May 15, 2015 · workers, greater knowledge and understanding has been gained, and new research questions have been posed. These studies have opened the door to a greater …
The Hong Kong onnection for the hinese Railroad Workers in …
contribution to the study of Chinese railroad workers in North America. Reviewing the archives, historical records, and writings by people who recollected this period of Hong Kong’s history, …
‘ZHI LIN: CHINESE RAILROAD WORKERS OF THE SIERRA …
Artist Zhi Lin’s work brings forth the forgotten history of Chinese workers that lost their lives constructing the Transcontinental Railroad. The exhibition will be on view at the Nevada …
CHINESE LABOUR ON THE CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY
Initially, those contracted were experienced U.S. railroad workers, but soon Lian Chang was recruiting inexperienced labourers from China. From 1881 to 1884, more than 17,000 Chinese …
Teaching Guide: Archaeological Excavation at Terrace, Utah
How did Chinese railroad workers shape Utah’s economy and society? This lesson introduces students to the recent archaeological excavation of Terrace, Utah, railroad town that played a …
Interpreting Chinese Worker Camps on the Transcontinental …
Historians count the produced and railroad-issued items, as well as the workers' completion of the transcontinental railroad among desire to use ethnically familiar items. A comparison the with …
Bibliographic Essay for “The Chinese as Railroad Workers after …
“The Chinese as Railroad Workers after Promontory” demonstrates that the Chinese played key roles in this frenzy of railroad construction not just in the West, the Northwest, and the …
ALIEN CHINESE RAILROAD WORKERS AND AMERICAN …
ian American Art: A History, 1850-1970; and Fateful Ties: A History of America’s Preoccupation with China. He has been a Guggenheim and ACLS Fellow. He currently co-directs the Chinese …
The Historical Experience of Labor: Archaeological …
国铁路工人之跨学科研究的贡献 ABSTRACT Since the 1960s, archaeologists have studied the work camps of Chinese immigrant and Chinese A. erican laborers who built the railroads of the …
CHINESE
This picture offers a powerful image of how railroad workers, and especially Chinese railroad workers, have been represented throughout history. The figures can be seen at work but their …
Stanford scholars seek documents from Chinese workers …
Between 1865 and 1869, thousands of Chinese migrants toiled at a grueling pace and in perilous working conditions to help construct America's First Transcontinental Railroad. At any given …
Archives, Photography, and Historical Memory
Stanford University’s Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project includes the production of a digital archive containing the most comprehensive collection of archival materials related …
Organizing Questions Introduction Chinese RailRoa - Amazon …
• How did Chinese railroad workers contribute to the first Transcontinental Railroad and help shape the landscape of the American West? • How do scholars interpret the past without first …
Chinese Railroad Workers: Their Contributions to an …
Objectives: Students will understand how Chinese labor impacted geographic, economic, social and demographic trends in America to 1877. Students will understand how the …
Chinese Railroad Workers, the Transcontinental Railroad, …
Asian migration to America began with Chinese railroad workers on the transcontinental railroad (1862-1869). Their labor saved the foundering Central Pacific Railroad, challenged by building …
Fragments of the Past: Archaeology, History, and the …
In 1865 the Central Pacific Railroad Company introduced large numbers of Chinese workers on the western portion of the first transcontinental railway across North America.
THE CHINESE RAILROAD WORKERS MEMORIAL PROJECT
America’s First Transcontinental Railroad. The Chinese Railroad Workers Memorial Monument Project seeks to give a recognized solemn tribute to the Chinese migrants who lost their lives …
'The Epic Story of Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad'
Jul 25, 2019 · U.S. Labor Department formally inducted the Chinese workers who helped build the transcontinental railroad into its Hall of Honor, giving them a place in American labor history …
Stories by Descendants of Chinese Railroad Workers
CHSA is working closely with Stanford University’s Chinese Railroad Worker Project of North America to record and document stories of railroad workers through the oral history passed …
Uncovering and Understanding the Experiences of Chinese …
In the ensuing years, such a chapter was largely erased from American political and historical narratives, and the study below aims to shed new light on recent research and materials to …
Forgotten Chinese Railroad Workers Remembered: Closing …
May 15, 2015 · workers, greater knowledge and understanding has been gained, and new research questions have been posed. These studies have opened the door to a greater …
The Hong Kong onnection for the hinese Railroad Workers …
contribution to the study of Chinese railroad workers in North America. Reviewing the archives, historical records, and writings by people who recollected this period of Hong Kong’s history, …
‘ZHI LIN: CHINESE RAILROAD WORKERS OF THE SIERRA …
Artist Zhi Lin’s work brings forth the forgotten history of Chinese workers that lost their lives constructing the Transcontinental Railroad. The exhibition will be on view at the Nevada …
CHINESE LABOUR ON THE CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY
Initially, those contracted were experienced U.S. railroad workers, but soon Lian Chang was recruiting inexperienced labourers from China. From 1881 to 1884, more than 17,000 Chinese …
Teaching Guide: Archaeological Excavation at Terrace, Utah
How did Chinese railroad workers shape Utah’s economy and society? This lesson introduces students to the recent archaeological excavation of Terrace, Utah, railroad town that played a …
Interpreting Chinese Worker Camps on the Transcontinental …
Historians count the produced and railroad-issued items, as well as the workers' completion of the transcontinental railroad among desire to use ethnically familiar items. A comparison the with …
Bibliographic Essay for “The Chinese as Railroad Workers …
“The Chinese as Railroad Workers after Promontory” demonstrates that the Chinese played key roles in this frenzy of railroad construction not just in the West, the Northwest, and the …
ALIEN CHINESE RAILROAD WORKERS AND AMERICAN …
ian American Art: A History, 1850-1970; and Fateful Ties: A History of America’s Preoccupation with China. He has been a Guggenheim and ACLS Fellow. He currently co-directs the Chinese …
