Discover how Wuyi Chinese laborers built the Transcontinental Railroad—then were erased from history in an enduring act of racial exclusion.
For millions of overseas Chinese today, the story begins not in a distant city or a famous port, but in…
Between 1865 and 1890, over 1,200 Chinese laborers worked on Montana’s railroads, including the Northern Pacific Railway. Most were young…
The abolition of slavery in the mid-19th century reshaped global labor markets, driving a surge in Chinese labor migration to…
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