Chinese Railroad Workers Project co-directors Gordon H. Chang and Shelley Fisher Fishkin met with a delegation from Jinan University (Cao Yunhua and Chen Jianrong) to sign a cooperative research agreement. »
The Committee of 100, an organization of prominent Chinese Americans dedicated to advancing understanding between the United States and Asia held its annual conference in San Francisco on April 25, 2014. The group honored Stanford University with its Common Ground Award for the Advancement in U.S.-China Relations, noting Stanford’s Chinese »
In late March 2014, four Stanford members of the Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project—Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Jason Heppler, Teri Hessel and Denise Khor—traveled to the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento to digitize every extant Central Pacific Railroad Payroll Sheet that contained the names of Chinese workers. All »
On May 9th the Department of Labor inducted the Chinese railroad workers into the Labor Hall of Honor in Washington, D.C. Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez, Deputy Secretary Christopher P. Liu, descendants of the railroad workers (including Connie Young Yu, Sandra Lee, Carolyn Kuhn) and other special guests joined »
In honor of Asian American and Pacific Islander Month, President Obama issued a proclamation acknowledging the contributions of Chinese railroad workers, the first federal recognition of its kind: This month marks 145 years since the final spike was hammered into the transcontinental railroad, an achievement made possible by Chinese laborers, »
Organized by Stanford Professor Barbara Voss, archeologists who have studied Chinese sites along the Central Pacific Railroad’s construction gathered at Stanford University, CA to discuss their research. The program for the Archeology Workshop is available here: Abstracts of the papers given at the Archeology Workshop are also available »
Organized by Professor Pin-chia Feng (National Chiao Tung University and Academia Sinica), scholars working on the Project in the United States and Asia gathered to share their research at the Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica, in Taipei, Taiwan. The Taipei Workshop program is available here: »
In Summer 2013, the CRRW research team went to the California State Railroad Museum to meet with archivists and librarians. Over two hundred payroll records from the Central Pacific Railroad company have been located and will become a part of the Digital Archive. They toured the historical downtown Sacramento and »
The Project’s web site officially launched – on the 144th anniversary of the Golden Spike ceremony that joined the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads. »
May 10, 2013: “A Conversation on David Henry Hwang’s The Dance and the Railroad and the History of Chinese Railroad Workers” was held at the Wuzhen Theatre Festival, Zhejiang (close to Shanghai). Playwright David Henry Hwang was joined by Professor Wen Jin (Fudan University) and Professor Shi Ke (Chinese Academy »
