The Chinese and the Iron Road

Building the Transcontinental Railroad
Herausgeber: Chang, Gordon H; Fishkin, Shelley Fisher

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Produktbeschreibung

Gordon H. Chang and Shelley Fisher Fishkin are Co-Directors of the Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project at Stanford; Hilton Obenzinger is Associate Director and Roland Hsu is Director of Research.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 153mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 844g
• ISBN-13: 9781503609242
• ISBN-10: 1503609243
• Artikelnr.: 53533732

Autorenporträt

Gordon H. Chang and Shelley Fisher Fishkin are Co-Directors of the Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project at Stanford; Hilton Obenzinger is Associate Director and Roland Hsu is Director of Research.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
 —Gordon H. Chang, Shelley Fisher Fishkin, and Hilton Obenzinger
1. Chinese Railroad Workers and the US Transcontinental Railroad in Global
Perspective
 —Gordon H. Chang
2. 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
3. The View from Home: Dreams of Chinese Railroad Workers Across the
Pacific
 —Zhang Guoxiong, with Roland Hsu
4. Overseas Remittances of Chinese Railroad Workers in North America
 —Yuan Ding, with Roland Hsu
5. Chinese Railroad Workers' Remittance Networks: Insights Based on
Qiaoxiang Documents
 —Liu Jin, with Roland Hsu
6. Archaeological Contributions to Research on Chinese Railroad Workers in
North America
 —Barbara L. Voss
7. Living between Misery and Triumph: The Material Practices of Chinese
Railroad Workers in North America
 —Barbara L. Voss
8. Landscapes of Change: Culture, Nature, and the Archaeological Heritage
of Transcontinental Railroads in the North American West
 —Kelly J. Dixon, with contributions by Gary Weisz, Christopher Merritt,
Robert Weaver, and James Bard
9. The Health and Well-being of Chinese Railroad Workers
 —J. Ryan Kennedy, Sarah Heffner, Virginia Popper, Ryan P. Harrod, and John
J. Crandall
10. Religion on the Road: How Chinese Migrants Adapted Popular Religion to
an American Context
 —Kathryn Gin Lum
11. Tracking Memory: Encounters between Chinese Railroad Workers and Native
Americans
 —Hsinya Huang
12. Railroad Frames: Landscapes and the Chinese Railroad Worker in
Photography, 18651869
 —Denise Khor
13. 'Les fils du Ciel': European Travelers' Accounts of Chinese Railroad
Workers
 —Greg Robinson
14. The Chinese Railroad Worker in United States History Textbooks: A
Historical Genealogy, 1849-1965
 —William Gow
15. Representing Chinese Railroad Workers in North America: Chinese
Historiography and Literature, 19492015
 —Yuan Shu
16. History Lessons: Remembering Chinese Railroad Workers in Dragon's Gate
and Donald Duk
 —Pin-chia Feng
17. The Chinese as Railroad Builders after Promontory
 —Shelley Fisher Fishkin
18. The Construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Transpacific
Chinese Diaspora, 18801885
 —Zhongping Chen
19. Beyond Railroad Work: Chinese Contributions to the Development of
Winnemucca and Elko, Nevada
 —Sue Fawn Chung
20. The Remarkable Life of a Sometimes Railroad Worker: Chin Gee Hee,
18441929
 —Beth Lew-Williams
21. The Chinese and the Stanfords: Nineteenth-Century America's Fraught
Relationship with the China Men
 —Gordon H. Chang