纽约时报：Chinese Railroad Workers Were Almost Written Out of History

 

Chinese Railroad Workers Were Almost Written Out of History. Now They’re Getting Their Due.

The day marked a profound transformation. A dangerous journey that once took months could now be completed in a week, revolutionizing the fractured country’s economy.

那一天标志着一场深刻的变革。曾经需要耗时数月的危险旅程，如今可以在一周内完成，给这个四分五裂的国家的经济带来了一场革命。

The leaders of the Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads came together to celebrate the joining of the tracks, and Leland Stanford, the business tycoon and political leader who founded Stanford University, drove a ceremonial golden spike into a tie to unite them.

中央太平洋铁路公司(Central Pacific)和联合太平洋铁路公司(Union Pacific Railroads)的领导人齐聚一堂，庆祝铁路轨道的接通。创办了斯坦福大学的商业大鳄、政治领袖利兰·斯坦福(Leland Stanford)把一根仪式性的金道钉敲入枕木，将铁轨连接了起来。

But many of the workers who had built the railroad were all but invisible at the ceremony, and in its retelling for many years afterward. They included about 15,000 Chinese immigrants — up to 90 percent of the work force on the Central Pacific line — who were openly discriminated against, vilified and forgotten.

但在仪式上，以及此后数年的叙述中，却看不到修建铁路的众多工人的身影。他们包括占中央太平洋线(Central Pacific line)九成劳动力的约1.5万名华人移民——他们受到了公然的歧视、贬低和遗忘。

全文：https://cn.nytimes.com/usa/20190521/golden-spike-utah-railroad-150th-anniversary/dual/