On April 11, 2017, Hilton Obenzinger, Associate Director of the Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project, joined Sue Lee, Executive Director, Chinese Historical Society of America, Paulette Liang, Chinese Railroad worker descendant, and James Zarsadiaz, Assistant Professor of History, University of San Francisco, on a panel to discuss the »
This forum was perhaps the first event to ever bring together the Irish and Chinese communities to discuss the role of both groups in the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad, which was followed by anti-Chinese agitation, leading to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. An overflow crowd of over 140 listened »
Philip Choy, architect, educator and activist, passed away at 91 on March 16, 2017. He was a stalwart in the social justice movement, and a leading advocate for the recognition of the role the Chinese had played in shaping the United States. A pioneering teacher and scholar, he co-taught with »
A film by Glenn Robert Lym as a part of his San Francisco Bay Area Video Podcast series called HERE. The whole series can be found on iTunes and Youtube. This film is the story of railroad worker Lim Lip Hong and his wife, Chan Shee. It tells of their »
“IT WAS 1970 when history professor Gordon H. Chang, then a new graduate student fresh out of Princeton, walked into Green Library to pore through Leland Stanford’s papers for the first time. Forty-five years later, he is still looking for what he went there that day to find: accounts that »
Recently, Professor Barbara Voss, Director of Archaeology for the Project, published an article on historical archaeology of overseas Chinese communities, “Towards a Transpacific Archaeology of the Modern World.” Here is the abstract for the article; and a web site for Springer, a publisher of scholarly articles. You may need to »
“A photo exhibition at Stanford University pays tribute to the Chinese workers who helped build the Transcontinental Railroad in the US 150 years ago.” »
“今年是華工來美國參與修建首條跨越大陸鐵路150周年。記錄這段歷史的「華工與鐵路」圖片展正在史丹福大學舉行，展出數十幅照片中，一部分是中國攝影家李炬蒐集的歷史照，另一部分是他自己先後四次沿鐵路線旅行所拍攝，展現大鐵路的今昔對照。展覽由廣西師範大學出版社主辦。” 看全文 »
“Walk through the second floor of Stanford’s Packard Electrical Engineering Building this week, and you will encounter a surprising visual history of the Central Pacific Railroad line, the first transcontinental railroad network between California and Utah. A new exhibition at Stanford titled The Chinese Helped Build the Railroad. The Railroad »
During his recent visit to the United States, President Xi Jinping saluted the Chinese railroad workers on several occasions in in Seattle, Washington and Washington, D.C. In one speech President Xi Jinping spoke about the relations between the people of China and the United States (emphasis ours): “Though geographically far »
