Alien Chinese Railroad Workers and American National History

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Gordon H. Chang is a Professor of History and Senior Associate Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education at Stanford University. He has written extensively on the histories of America-China relations, U.S. diplomacy, and Asian-American History. His most recent books include The Chinese and the Iron Road: Building the Transcontinental Railroad edited with Shelley Fisher Fishkin) and Ghosts of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad.

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