Union Pacific getting Chinese laborers 1868 Oct. 21 Leland Stanford Papers, Box 1, Folder 12 Hopkins, Mark June 1868-Nov. 1868 Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif. »
Various Chinese newspapers reported on the Chinese Railroad Workers Project in December 2013. 中美合作将再现被遗忘的美国铁路华工历史, chinanews.com, 2013年12月23日 中美合作将再现被遗忘的美国铁路华工历史, news.timedg.com, 2013年12月23日 中美合作将再现被遗忘的美国铁路华工历史, chinairn.com, 2013年12月23日 中美携手 将再现被遗忘铁路华工血泪史, usa.fjsen.com, 2013年12月23日 中美合作将再现被遗忘的美国铁路华工历史, bbs.railcn.net, 2013年12月23日 中美协作将再现被忘记的美国铁路华工前史, news.huxi.cc, 2013年12月24日 »
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 2012, Beijing-based photographer Li Ju travelled the route of the Central Pacific railroad, documenting through photographs, what the places captured by nineteenth-century photographer Alfred Hart look like today. He reported on his trip in blogs written in Chinese that he posted in 2012 and discussed his trip with Project »
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 »
“Golden Spike Celebrations – Chinese workers’ vintage point of Andrew J. Russell’s ‘Champagne Photo’ site”, 2008, Chinese ink on paper, 48” x 108” Zhi Lin’s series titled “Invisible and Unwelcomed People” was exhibited at Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Culver City, California in 2009. According to the artist, “the project is centered on »
Mr. Edward Laning (1906-1981), now recognized as one of America’s foremost muralists, was commissioned during the Roosevelt Administration, in 1935, to depict the “Wedding of the Rails” at Promontory, Utah, for the Immigration Building on Ellis Island, in New York Harbur. The joining by rail of our nation’s East and »
