"How the West was built: Project seeks stories of Chinese workers"
"How the West was built: Project seeks stories of Chinese workers" by JULIE MAKINEN, © Los Angeles Times, June 21, 2015. (News Article)
" ... Stanford University ... [has] launched the Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project, endeavoring to collect the most complete record of these [Chinese Central Pacific Railroad worker] migrants' journey to the American frontier and their subsequent experiences. ... " [More]
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Gordon Chang and Shelley Fisher Fishkin are looking for answers about the Chinese who worked the railroad. ... 'We know very little about who they were, their names even, what they experienced, how they were recruited, how they lived and worked and died on the railroad and what happened to them subsequently,' said Chang. 'Their story is hard to tell because they left no written records themselves. There is not a single letter or journal or even remittance envelope in the hand in one of these workers that has yet surfaced in the U.S. or China,' added Fishkin."
—AMERICAN RAILROAD PROJECT PEERS INTO CHINESE PAST
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