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The Chinese and the Iron Road - Building the Transcontinental Railroad (Hardcover)
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The Chinese and the Iron Road - Building the Transcontinental Railroad (Hardcover)
Series: Asian America
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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 percent 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 explores the
experiences of 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.
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