The records of specific individuals and their names and experiences are so sparse, said Fishkin.
Fishkin is co-director of the Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project at Stanford University. She is working with scholars in Asia to look for descendants of railroad workers on both continents to reconstruct the lives of these men.
Many of the Chinese workers who came to work on the Transcontinental and other railroads returned to China after their work was done [and] created families there. Some of them had families who they left when they came here and they may have descendants in China, said Fishkin.
The aim is to create a digital archive of artifacts, documents and oral histories from the railroad workers descendants so historians can piece together the mystery of who they were and what happened to them.
The U.S. could not have become the modern industrial nation it did without the railroads and the railroads would not have come together when they did without the crucial work of these Chinese workers, said Fishkin.
Jonathan Wongs ancestor knew English and left China to work as a translator on the transcontinental railroad. He eventually brought his family to the U.S., and they settled in San Francisco.
He had a [different] experience than having to do labor. He wouldnt go home feeling that he was going to be in danger the next day. It was a closer relationship with the white community, his white superiors, but obviously I know that he was still treated as if he was the inferior minority, said Wong.
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