| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Asian America
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Asian America.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Chinese railroad workers and the US transcontinental railroad in global perspective / Gordon H. Chang -- Chinese labor migrants to the Americas in the nineteenth century : an inquiry into who they were and the world they left behind / Evelyn Hu-DeHart -- The view from home : dreams of Chinese railroad workers across the Pacific / Zhang Guoxiong, with Roland Hsu -- Overseas remittances of Chinese railroad workers in North America / Yuan Ding, with Roland Hsu -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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. |
| Summary |
This landmark volume sheds light on the lives and experiences of the Chinese workers who made up 90% of the workforce that built the Central Pacific Railroad--but who have been little understood and largely invisible in traditional accounts of the building of the First Transcontinental Railroad. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Central Pacific Railroad Company -- Employees -- History.
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Central Pacific Railroad Company. |
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Employees. |
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History. |
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Railroad construction workers -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century.
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Railroad construction workers. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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Foreign workers, Chinese -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century.
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Foreign workers, Chinese. |
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China -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century.
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China. |
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Emigration and immigration. |
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Chinese -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century.
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Chinese. |
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West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century.
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| Chronological Term |
1800-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Chang, Gordon H., editor.
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Fishkin, Shelley Fisher, editor.
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Obenzinger, Hilton, contributor.
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Hsu, Roland, 1961- contributor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Chinese and the iron road. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2019 9781503608290 (DLC) 2018037786 (OCoLC)1049577161 |
| ISBN |
9781503609259 (electronic book) |
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1503609251 (electronic book) |
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9781503608290 |
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1503608298 |
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9781503609242 |
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1503609243 |
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