Help with epic movie about the Chinese in America
From: "Henry Wong" henryw888@yahoo.com
I would like to make an epic movie about the Chinese in America.
Can you help?
posted from CPRR Discussion Group at 3:57 AM
Monday, March 21, 2011
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See Chinese railroad workers.
For information about the Chinese railroad workers on the first transcontinental railroad, see,
Chinese railroad workers
Links relating to Chinese
Please be sensitive to the different goals of movie makers who typically want to tell a story and are not concerned with historical accuracy, while those interested in railroad history often get very passionate about even the slightest historical inaccuracies.
The subject of the CPRR Chinese workers is difficult because there are no first hand accounts written by Chinese, and there is a tremendous amount of misinformation in recent publications.
The best modern book about transcontinental railroad history is Empire Express.
From: Bob_Spude@nps.gov
... you might want to quickly scan four books for themes:
William F. Chew's Nameless Builders of the Transcontinental (on the Chinese workers);
Liping Zhu's A Chinaman's Chance (on Chinese placer gold miners);
Ruthanne Lum McCunn's Thousand Pieces of Gold (about Polly Bemis and her life from China to San Francisco to the gold fields – this is also a movie);
Victor Nee's classic Longtime Californ (about Chinatown).
Liping Zhu, Eastern Washington University, is working on a history of the Chinese experience in the West.
There are a number of sites tied to the Chinese experiences in the American West. Just a couple: Virginia City, Montana (Thousand Pieces of Gold was filmed, in part, here); also Golden Spike National Historic Site.
Bob Spude – Historian – Cultural Resources Management – National Park Service – Intermountain Region – 505.988.6770 Voice – 505.988.6876 Fax
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