Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project at Stanford
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Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project at Stanford University
Jul 21, 2020
Recording of the 7/20/20 SPICE webinar "Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project at Stanford University" with Dr. Roland Hsu and Greg Francis. Co-sponsored by the Center for East Asian Studies, Stanford University.
Upwards of 15,000 to 20,000 individual migrant Chinese laborers performed the bulk of the work constructing the Central Pacific span of the Transcontinental Railroad. Between 1864 and 1869, these Chinese also crossed the Pacific Ocean in what was then, and may still rank among the largest transnational labor migration movements. How do we find sources to uncover this forgotten and deliberately erased history? How did they live their daily lives? What kinds of enterprise did they innovate? How did their work on the railroad shape their lives in communities on both sides of the Pacific? We look at the digital resources available at web.stanford.edu/group/chineserailroad/cgi-bin/website/.
In 2018, the Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE) published four lessons on the Chinese Railroad Workers that adapt the research, primary sources, and insights of the Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project for high school students and classes. These lessons are free for download from the SPICE website at spice.fsi.stanford.edu/multimedia/chinese-railroad-workers-north-america-project.
