The Chinese and the Iron Road: Building the Transcontinental Railroad (Asian America)

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The Chinese and the Iron Road: Building the Transcontinental Railroad (Asian America)



The Chinese and the Iron Road: Building the Transcontinental Railroad (Asian America)



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This landmark volume sheds light on the lives and experiences of the Chinese workers who made up 90% of the workforce that built the Central Pacific Railroad-but who have been little understood and largely invisible in traditional accounts of the building of the First Transcontinental Railroad.

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