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Title:
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.
Author:
Chang, Gordon H., editor.

Fishkin, Shelley Fisher, editor.

Obenzinger, Hilton, contributor.

Hsu, Roland, 1961- contributor.
Publication Information:
Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2019]
Call Number:
HD8039.R3152 C49 2019
ISBN:
9781503608290

9781503609242
Series:
Asian America

Asian America.
Physical Description:
xiii, 539 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Contents:
Chinese railroad workers and the US transcontinental railroad in global perspective / Chinese labor migrants to the Americas in the nineteenth century : an inquiry into who they were and the world they left behind / The view from home : dreams of Chinese railroad workers across the Pacific / Overseas remittances of Chinese laborers in North America / Chinese railroad workers' remittance networks : insights based on qiaoxiang documents / Archaeological contributions to research on Chinese railroad workers in North America / Living between misery and triumph : the material practices of Chinese railroad workers in North America / Landscapes of change : culture, nature, and the archaeological heritage of transcontinental railroads in the North American West / The health and well-being of Chinese railroad workers / Religion on the road : how Chinese migrants adapted popular religion to an American context / Tracking memory : encounters between Chinese railroad workers and Native Americans / Railroad frames : landscapes and the Chinese railroad worker in photography, 1865-1869 / Les fils du ciel : European travelers' accounts of Chinese railroad workers / The Chinese railroad worker in United States history textbooks : a historical genealogy, 1849-1965 / Representing Chinese railroad workers in North America : Chinese historiography and literature, 1949-2015 / History lessons : remembering Chinese railroad workers in Dragon's gate and Donald Duk / The Chinese as railroad builders after Promontory / The construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway and the transpacific Chinese diaspora, 1880-1885 / Beyond railroad work : Chinese contributions to the development of Winnemucca and Elko, Nevada / The remarkable life of a sometimes railroad worker : Chin Gee Hee, 1844-1929 / The Chinese and the Stanfords : nineteenth-century America's fraught relationship with the China Men
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