As you go through the rooms of the exhibit, you can listen to the videos and see back into the courtyard through the glass.
BOB DOUGHTY: Ting-Chi Wang leads us to the permanent exhibition called “With a Single Step.” She says that the exhibition about Chinese immigrants in America was based on the idea of a hero’s travels.
TING-CHI WANG: “The concept of journey works out very well. In the sense that it’s literally, of course, a journey that the immigrants have taken, but also it’s the journey of America as country.”
FAITH LAPIDUS: The exhibit begins in the late seventeen hundreds and eighteen hundreds. It tells about the exchange of goods and people between China and western countries. And it tells about the role Chinese workers played in helping to build America into an industrial power.
The exhibit discusses the Opium Wars that took place in the middle of the nineteenth century. These trade disputes between China and Britain resulted in China being forced to open more of its ports to trade with western countries.
BOB DOUGHTY: The exhibit also tells about the many Chinese workers who came to the United States starting in eighteen forty-eight. They tried their luck in California’s Gold Rush. By the eighteen sixties, the Central Pacific Railroad was hiring Chinese workers in huge numbers. They helped build part of a railroad that would cross the United States. The Chinese workers became known for their skill and hard work. But they soon faced discrimination and political oppression.
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