The Resource The Chinese and the iron road : building the transcontinental railroad, edited by Gordon H. Chang and Shelley Fisher Fishkin, with Hilton Obenzinger and Roland Hsu
The Chinese and the iron road : building the transcontinental railroad, edited by Gordon H. Chang and Shelley Fisher Fishkin, with Hilton Obenzinger and Roland Hsu
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- Summary
- The completion of the transcontinental railroad in May 1869 is usually told as a story of national triumph and a key moment for American Manifest Destiny. The railroad made it possible to cross the country in a matter of days instead of months, paved the way for new settlers to come out West, and helped speed America's entry onto the world stage as a modern nation that spanned a full continent. It also created vast wealth for its four owners, including the fortune with which Leland Stanford would found Stanford University some two decades later. But while the transcontinental has often been celebrated in national memory, little attention has been paid to the Chinese workers who made up 90% of the workforce on the Western portion of the line. The railroad could not have been built without Chinese labor, but the lives of Chinese railroad workers themselves have been little understood and largely invisible. This landmark volume shines new light on the Chinese railroad workers and their place in cultural memory. The Chinese and the Iron Road illuminates more fully than ever before the interconnected economies of China and the US, how immigration across the Pacific changed both nations, the dynamics of the racism the workers encountered, the conditions under which they labored, and their role in shaping both the history of the railroad and the development of the American West
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xiii, 539 pages
- Note
- Source of cataloging data: WCP
- Contents
-
- Chinese railroad workers' remittance networks : insights based on qiaoxiang documents
- Liu Jin, with Roland Hsu
- Archaeological contributions to research on Chinese railroad workers in North America
- Barbara L. Voss
- Living between misery and triumph : the material practices of Chinese railroad workers in North America
- Barbara L. Voss
- Landscapes of change : culture, nature, and the archaeological heritage of transcontinental railroads in the North American West
- Kelly J. Dixon
- The health and well-being of Chinese railroad workers
- J. Ryan Kennedy, Sarah Heffner, Virginia Popper, Ryan P. Harrod, and John J. Crandall
- Chinese railroad workers and the US transcontinental railroad in global perspective
- Religion on the road : how Chinese migrants adapted popular religion to an American context
- Kathryn Gin Lum
- Tracking memory : encounters between Chinese railroad workers and Native Americans
- Hsinya Huang
- Railroad frames : landscapes and the Chinese railroad worker in photography, 1865-1869
- Denise Khor
- Les fils du ciel : European travelers' accounts of Chinese railroad workers
- Greg Robinson
- The Chinese railroad worker in United States history textbooks : a historical genealogy, 1849-1965
- William Gow
- Gordon H. Chang
- Representing Chinese railroad workers in North America : Chinese historiography and literature, 1949-2015
- Yuan Shu
- History lessons : remembering Chinese railroad workers in Dragon's gate and Donald Duk
- Pin-chia Feng
- The Chinese as railroad builders after Promontory
- Shelley Fisher Fishkin
- The construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway and the transpacific Chinese diaspora, 1880-1885
- Zhongping Chen
- Beyond railroad work : Chinese contributions to the development of Winnemucca and Elko, Nevada
- Sue Fawn Chung
- Chinese labor migrants to the Americas in the nineteenth century : an inquiry into who they were and the world they left behind
- The remarkable life of a sometimes railroad worker : Chin Gee Hee, 1844-1929
- Beth Lew-Williams
- The Chinese and the Stanfords : nineteenth-century America's fraught relationship with the China Men
- Gordon H. Chang
- Evelyn Hu-DeHart
- The view from home : dreams of Chinese railroad workers across the Pacific
- Zhang Guoxiong, with Roland Hsu
- Overseas remittances of Chinese laborers in North America
- Yuan Ding, with Roland Hsu
- Isbn
- 9781503609242
- Label
- The Chinese and the iron road : building the transcontinental railroad
- Title
- The Chinese and the iron road
- Title remainder
- building the transcontinental railroad
- Statement of responsibility
- edited by Gordon H. Chang and Shelley Fisher Fishkin, with Hilton Obenzinger and Roland Hsu
- Subject
-
- China -- Emigration and immigration | History -- 19th century
- Chinese -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century
- Foreign workers, Chinese -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century
- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century
- 1800-1899
- Railroad construction workers -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century
- Central Pacific Railroad Company -- Employees | History
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- The completion of the transcontinental railroad in May 1869 is usually told as a story of national triumph and a key moment for American Manifest Destiny. The railroad made it possible to cross the country in a matter of days instead of months, paved the way for new settlers to come out West, and helped speed America's entry onto the world stage as a modern nation that spanned a full continent. It also created vast wealth for its four owners, including the fortune with which Leland Stanford would found Stanford University some two decades later. But while the transcontinental has often been celebrated in national memory, little attention has been paid to the Chinese workers who made up 90% of the workforce on the Western portion of the line. The railroad could not have been built without Chinese labor, but the lives of Chinese railroad workers themselves have been little understood and largely invisible. This landmark volume shines new light on the Chinese railroad workers and their place in cultural memory. The Chinese and the Iron Road illuminates more fully than ever before the interconnected economies of China and the US, how immigration across the Pacific changed both nations, the dynamics of the racism the workers encountered, the conditions under which they labored, and their role in shaping both the history of the railroad and the development of the American West
- Cataloging source
- CSt/DLC
- Dewey number
- 331.6/251097509034
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HD8039.R3152
- LC item number
- C49 2019
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
- 1961-
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
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- Chang, Gordon H.
- Fishkin, Shelley Fisher
- Obenzinger, Hilton
- Hsu, Roland
- Series statement
- Asian America
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Central Pacific Railroad Company
- Railroad construction workers
- Foreign workers, Chinese
- China
- Chinese
- West (U.S.)
- Label
- The Chinese and the iron road : building the transcontinental railroad, edited by Gordon H. Chang and Shelley Fisher Fishkin, with Hilton Obenzinger and Roland Hsu
- Note
- Source of cataloging data: WCP
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Chinese railroad workers' remittance networks : insights based on qiaoxiang documents
- Liu Jin, with Roland Hsu
- Archaeological contributions to research on Chinese railroad workers in North America
- Barbara L. Voss
- Living between misery and triumph : the material practices of Chinese railroad workers in North America
- Barbara L. Voss
- Landscapes of change : culture, nature, and the archaeological heritage of transcontinental railroads in the North American West
- Kelly J. Dixon
- The health and well-being of Chinese railroad workers
- J. Ryan Kennedy, Sarah Heffner, Virginia Popper, Ryan P. Harrod, and John J. Crandall
- Chinese railroad workers and the US transcontinental railroad in global perspective
- Religion on the road : how Chinese migrants adapted popular religion to an American context
- Kathryn Gin Lum
- Tracking memory : encounters between Chinese railroad workers and Native Americans
- Hsinya Huang
- Railroad frames : landscapes and the Chinese railroad worker in photography, 1865-1869
- Denise Khor
- Les fils du ciel : European travelers' accounts of Chinese railroad workers
- Greg Robinson
- The Chinese railroad worker in United States history textbooks : a historical genealogy, 1849-1965
- William Gow
- Gordon H. Chang
- Representing Chinese railroad workers in North America : Chinese historiography and literature, 1949-2015
- Yuan Shu
- History lessons : remembering Chinese railroad workers in Dragon's gate and Donald Duk
- Pin-chia Feng
- The Chinese as railroad builders after Promontory
- Shelley Fisher Fishkin
- The construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway and the transpacific Chinese diaspora, 1880-1885
- Zhongping Chen
- Beyond railroad work : Chinese contributions to the development of Winnemucca and Elko, Nevada
- Sue Fawn Chung
- Chinese labor migrants to the Americas in the nineteenth century : an inquiry into who they were and the world they left behind
- The remarkable life of a sometimes railroad worker : Chin Gee Hee, 1844-1929
- Beth Lew-Williams
- The Chinese and the Stanfords : nineteenth-century America's fraught relationship with the China Men
- Gordon H. Chang
- Evelyn Hu-DeHart
- The view from home : dreams of Chinese railroad workers across the Pacific
- Zhang Guoxiong, with Roland Hsu
- Overseas remittances of Chinese laborers in North America
- Yuan Ding, with Roland Hsu
- Control code
- on1049577161
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Extent
- xiii, 539 pages
- Isbn
- 9781503609242
- Lccn
- 2018037786
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1049577161
- Label
- The Chinese and the iron road : building the transcontinental railroad, edited by Gordon H. Chang and Shelley Fisher Fishkin, with Hilton Obenzinger and Roland Hsu
- Note
- Source of cataloging data: WCP
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Chinese railroad workers' remittance networks : insights based on qiaoxiang documents
- Liu Jin, with Roland Hsu
- Archaeological contributions to research on Chinese railroad workers in North America
- Barbara L. Voss
- Living between misery and triumph : the material practices of Chinese railroad workers in North America
- Barbara L. Voss
- Landscapes of change : culture, nature, and the archaeological heritage of transcontinental railroads in the North American West
- Kelly J. Dixon
- The health and well-being of Chinese railroad workers
- J. Ryan Kennedy, Sarah Heffner, Virginia Popper, Ryan P. Harrod, and John J. Crandall
- Chinese railroad workers and the US transcontinental railroad in global perspective
- Religion on the road : how Chinese migrants adapted popular religion to an American context
- Kathryn Gin Lum
- Tracking memory : encounters between Chinese railroad workers and Native Americans
- Hsinya Huang
- Railroad frames : landscapes and the Chinese railroad worker in photography, 1865-1869
- Denise Khor
- Les fils du ciel : European travelers' accounts of Chinese railroad workers
- Greg Robinson
- The Chinese railroad worker in United States history textbooks : a historical genealogy, 1849-1965
- William Gow
- Gordon H. Chang
- Representing Chinese railroad workers in North America : Chinese historiography and literature, 1949-2015
- Yuan Shu
- History lessons : remembering Chinese railroad workers in Dragon's gate and Donald Duk
- Pin-chia Feng
- The Chinese as railroad builders after Promontory
- Shelley Fisher Fishkin
- The construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway and the transpacific Chinese diaspora, 1880-1885
- Zhongping Chen
- Beyond railroad work : Chinese contributions to the development of Winnemucca and Elko, Nevada
- Sue Fawn Chung
- Chinese labor migrants to the Americas in the nineteenth century : an inquiry into who they were and the world they left behind
- The remarkable life of a sometimes railroad worker : Chin Gee Hee, 1844-1929
- Beth Lew-Williams
- The Chinese and the Stanfords : nineteenth-century America's fraught relationship with the China Men
- Gordon H. Chang
- Evelyn Hu-DeHart
- The view from home : dreams of Chinese railroad workers across the Pacific
- Zhang Guoxiong, with Roland Hsu
- Overseas remittances of Chinese laborers in North America
- Yuan Ding, with Roland Hsu
- Control code
- on1049577161
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Extent
- xiii, 539 pages
- Isbn
- 9781503609242
- Lccn
- 2018037786
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1049577161
Subject
- China -- Emigration and immigration | History -- 19th century
- Chinese -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century
- Foreign workers, Chinese -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century
- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century
- 1800-1899
- Railroad construction workers -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century
- Central Pacific Railroad Company -- Employees | History
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