Ghosts of Gold Mountain
内容简介
A groundbreaking, breathtaking history of the Chinese workers who built the Transcontinental Railroad, helping to forge modern America only to disappear into the shadows of history until now.
From across the sea, they came by the thousands, escaping war and poverty in southern China to seek their fortunes in America. Converging on the enormous western worksite of the Transcontinental Railroad, the migrants spent years dynamiting tunnels through the snow-packed cliffs of the Sierra Nevada and laying tracks across the burning Utah desert. Their sweat and blood fueled the ascent of an interlinked, industrial United States. But those of them who survived this perilous effort would suffer a different kind of death—a historical one, as they were pushed first to the margins of American life and then to the fringes of public memory.
In this groundbreaking account, award-winning scholar Gordon H. Chang draws on unprecedented research to recover the Chinese railroad workers’ stories and celebrate their role in remaking America. An invaluable correction of a great historical injustice, The Ghosts of Gold Mountain returns these “silent spikes” to their rightful place in our national saga.
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作者简介
GORDON H. CHANG is the Olive H. Palmer Professor in Humanities and Professor of History at Stanford University, where he also serves as Director of the Center for East Asian Studies and Co-Director of the Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project. The author of Fateful Ties and editor of four other books, he lives in Stanford, California.
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读书文摘
像那些在横贯北美大陆铁路线上工作的华工一样，许芹和他的堂兄发现自己踏上了一个蓬勃发展的国家，这个国家因对劳动力的巨大需求而为他们提供了狭小的生存空间，但根深蒂固的种族偏见又让他们始终处于社会的边缘。许芹赴美的经历是成千上万名即将在横贯北美大陆铁路线上工作的华工的缩影，我们也得以了解19世纪中期在美华人生活的艰辛。
像那些在横贯北美大陆铁路线上工作的华工一样，许芹和他的堂兄发现自己踏上了一个蓬勃发展的国家，这个国家因对劳动力的巨大需求而为他们提供了狭小的生存空间，但根深蒂固的种族偏见又让他们始终处于社会的边缘。
两万多名华工几乎完成了太平洋铁路整个西段工程的建设，他们占了中央太平洋铁路公司全部劳工的90%。
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