He’s the author of the books “Chinese Railroad Workers” and “Ghosts of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad,” which will be published in May.

Gordon H. Chang, author of "Ghosts of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad." Co-director of the Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project .

GHOSTS OF GOLD MOUNTAIN The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad By Gordon H. Chang. Shortly after the driving of the Golden Spike at Promontory Point, Utah, on May 10 ...

May also marks the publication of Ghosts of Gold Mountain, a groundbreaking history of Chinese railroad workers by Stanford scholar Gordon H. Chang. Given that the university’s founder, ...

As Stanford historian Gordon H. Chang writes in his forthcoming book “Ghosts of Gold Mountain,” these workers have been rendered “all but invisible…. In fact, in some instances Chinese are ...

He is author of a newly-released book, "Ghosts of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad" The gold rush had brought thousands from China to California ...

How this was accomplished is not without controversy, according to “Ghosts of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad,” a forthcoming book written ...

The entrance to Sojourning in Gold Mountain, an exhibition at the Hong Kong Museum of History that delves into what life was like for Chinese migrant workers travelling to the US in the 19th century.

By then, 60,000 Chinese had come to “Gold Mountain” in search of riches, “but California law discriminated against them in every way possible, and the state did all it could to degrade them ...

Terrace was established by Chinese railroad workers in 1869, when construction crews were racing to connect the eastward and westward tracks of the railroad 70 miles from here at Promontory Summit.

In “Ghosts of Gold Mountain” (2019), Gordon H. Chang, a history professor at Stanford University, writes that, at least initially, many were generally welcoming toward the Chinese.

The first Chinese workers came to Montana in 1862 with the discovery of gold in Grasshopper Creek. The MHS ends its exhibit's span in 1943, when the Chinese Exclusion Act ended.