中国日报报道铁路华工展在斯坦福大学举行

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中国日报2015年11月12日英文版报道铁路华工展在斯坦福大学举行(Exhibithonors railroad workers By LIa Zhu in San Francisco (ChinaDaily USA)。报道称展出11月18日结束后下月将在纽约展出。但是,李炬13:00发来短信 说,纽约展览事纯属子虚乌有,不知道她是从那里得到的。李带赞助主办方人员离开旧金山去纽约，大概她误以为将到纽约。感谢李炬传来澄清的信息。

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Exhibit honors railroad workers

ByLIa Zhu in San Francisco (ChinaDaily USA)Updated:2015-11-12 12:08

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A photo exhibition at StanfordUniversity pays tribute to the Chineseworkers who helped build the Transcontinental Railroad in the US 150 yearsago.

More than 70 frames of historical and contemporary photosdepicting the historical sites are on display at the bilingual exhibition,called The Chinese Helped Build the Railroad andthe Railroad Helped Build America, which was organized by China's Guangxi NormalUniversity Press and sponsored by the American Studies Program and the Centerfor East Asian Studies at Stanford University.

The Transcontinental Railroad, originally known as thePacific Railroad, was completed in 1869, linking the West and the East for thefirst time in American history with a 1,907-mile contiguous railroad line.

Chinese laborers joined the workforce for the Westernsection, the most arduous phase of the construction; however, their role waslargely neglected for many years.

Li Ju, a Beijing photographer and computer engineer,traveled along the railroad route four times. He revisited the sites captured by 19th centuryphotographer Alfred Hart and documented his journey with photos.

In early 1865, the year the American Civil War ended, theCentral Pacific Railroad arranged with labor contractors to recruit workersfrom China, mostly from Guangdong.

Desperate for work, the Chinese workers left theirhometowns, which suffered from poverty and civil unrest, and boarded ships for California to supporttheir families.

The Chinese railroad workers also played a key role increating the fortune with which Leland Stanford founded StanfordUniversity in Palo Alto, California.

In 2012, the Chinese Railroad Workers in North Americaproject was launched at Stanford University and beganexploring and cataloging this history.

During his state visit in September, Chinese President Xi Jinping applauded the contributionof the workers.

"One-hundredfifty years ago, hundreds of thousands of Chinese laborers traveled across thesea to the US to participate in the construction of the Pacific Railroad,paving the strategic corridor leading to the Western US and becoming a monumentof Chinese compatriots in the US featuring pioneering, forging ahead anddedicated spirits," he said at a reception hosted by the Chinese community in Seattle on Sept23.

The photoexhibition will run until Nov 18 and travel to New York next month.

liazhu@chinadaily.com.cn

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