Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Maps, Figures, and Tables xi
4. Note on Romanization xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. Part One. Global Perspectives
7. Chapter 1. Chinese Railroad Workers and the US Transcontinental Railroad in Global Perspective 27
8. Chapter 2. Chinese Labor Migrants to the Americas in the Nineteenth Century 42
9. Part Two. Ties to China
10. Chapter 3. The View from Home 55
11. Chapter 4. Overseas Remittances of Chinese Laborers in North America 76
12. Chapter 5. Chinese Railroad Workers’ Remittance Networks 90
13. Part Three. Life on the Line
14. Chapter 6. Archaeological Contributions to Research on Chinese Railroad Workers in North America 103
15. Chapter 7. Living between Misery and Triumph 110
16. Chapter 8. Landscapes of Change 126
17. Chapter 9. The Health and Well-Being of Chinese Railroad Workers 139
18. Chapter 10. Religion on the Road 159
19. Chapter 11. Tracking Memory 179
20. Chapter 12. Railroad Frames 194
21. Chapter 13. Les fils du Ciel 218
22. Chapter 14. The Chinese Railroad Worker in United States History Textbooks 235
23. Chapter 15. Representing Chinese Railroad Workers in North America 246
24. Chapter 16. History Lessons 263
25. Part Five. Chinese Railroad Workers after Promontory
26. Chapter 17. The Chinese as Railroad Builders after Promontory 277
27. Chapter 18. The Construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Transpacific Chinese Diaspora, 1880–1885 294
28. Chapter 19. Beyond Railroad Work 314
29. Chapter 20. The Remarkable Life of a Sometime Railroad Worker 329
30. Chapter 21. The Chinese and the Stanfords 346
31. Acknowledgments 365
32. Notes 371
33. Glossary 465
34. Works Cited 467
35. List of Contributors 509
36. Index 517