Between 1865 and 1869, thousands of Chinese migrants toiled at a grueling pace and in perilous working conditions to help construct America’s first Transcontinental Railroad. The Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project seeks to give a voice to the Chinese migrants whose labor on the Transcontinental Railroad helped to shape »
“The Line” is a segment of Seven Wonders of the Industrial World, a documentary/docudrama produced by BBC and originally aired in 2003-04. Narrated by Robert Lindsay and produced by Jill Fullerton-Smith ahd Deborah Cadbury. “By the middle of the 19th century, the benefits brought by the host of advances of the »
Radio broadcasting during the era of recovery from the Great Depression was a critical factor in that recovery. The early Radio networks were recovering as well. Cash-strapped and low on capital, the networks of the era turned more and more to independent programming producers to meet the Nation’s voracious appetite »
An original song writen by Black Irish Band member Patrick Michael Karnahan in honor of the Chinese Americans that built the Central Pacific Railroad. Band member James Nelson sings lead on this ballad based on the struggle to build a railroad over the mighty Sierra Nevada Mountains. Historians state that »
Courtesy of The Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley. BANC PIC 1963.002:0504–C »
Between 1865 and 1869, thousands of Chinese migrants toiled at a grueling pace and in perilous working conditions to help construct America’s first Transcontinental Railroad. The Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project seeks to give a voice to the Chinese migrants whose labor on the Transcontinental Railroad helped to shape »
Courtesy of The Bancroft Library // University of California, Berkeley // BANC PIC 1963.002:0504–C »
A delegation from Guangdong universities and the provincial government visited Stanford, and Yuan Ding, Sun Yat-sen University, signed an agreement of cooperation between the Project and the Guangdong Overseas Chinese History Program. Guangdong delegation included: Professor Zhang Guoxiong (张国雄): 五邑大学副校长（ Vice-Chancellor of Wu Yi University), Professor Zhang Yinglong(张应龙): 暨南大学华人华侨研究院副院长（Associate Dean »
Dongfang Shao and Qiu Qi visited the Guangdong Overseas Research Center, Wuyi University, Jiangmen Museum and Jiangmen Wuyi Museum of Overseas Chinese, and Sun Yat-sen University Libraries, School of Asian and Pacific Studies of Sun Yat-sen University on research collaboration. Prof. Zhang Quoxiong, vice-president of WuYi University, signed an Intention »
The Project receives a letter from Yang Dongquan, Director General, State Archives Administration of China, in support of the Project, forwarding communications to Guangdong Provincial Archives of China to “assist your project energetically.” »
