The story of Raymond Chong, descendant of a Chinese railroad worker who has spent the last 10 years looking for his roots in Kaiping City, Guangdong Province was featured on May 28, 2014 on ITV 55.5 Life, a Mandarin program broadcast from Houston, Texas. The Chinese Railroad Workers Project has »
“‘我们想纠正一个历史错误，中央太平洋铁路不是斯坦福一个人修的，而主要是华人修的。”斯坦福大学北美铁路华工研究工程负责人张少书教授对南方日报记者说，不能让这些修建美国太平洋铁路的华工继续成为历史的“隐形人。’” Read the full story 看全文 »
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 »
The Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center launched the project “A Day in the Life of Asian Pacific America” to gather photos from all parts of the U.S. on May 10th, the anniversary of the Golden Spike. The Stanford Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project participated by shooting photos at »
May 10, 2014 was the 145th anniversary of the Golden Spike ceremony at Promontory, Utah. The ceremony celebrated the meeting of the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads to complete the transcontinental railroad in 1869. There was a wide range of events and articles sparked by this anniversary, many of »
A Memorial Project has been launched to build a monument to the Chinese railroad workers in the Sierra Nevada. Steven Lee is heading the Memorial Project, and Bay Area journalist Rick Quan has produced a video to introduce the project and to raise funds. The Stanford Railroad Workers in North »
“ ‘我们想纠正一个历史错误，中央太平洋铁路不是斯坦福一个人修的，而主要是华人修的。”斯坦福大学北美铁路华工研究工程负责人张少书教授对南方日报记者说，不能让这些修建美国太平洋铁路的华工继续成为历史的“隐形人’。” Read the full story 看全文 »
