The annual Cleveland Asian Festival was held on May 20 and 21, 2023 and attracted about 45,000 attendees. Each year the Kwan Family Lion Dance Team opens the festival with a performance. This year they have added a new lion so they performed an awakening ceremony on the lion and then put...
As is known, early Chinese _4_(immigrant) were not Christian, and losing an entire day of sales for a holiday they didn't understand did not make economic sense to them. And Chinese restaurants boomed during the _5_(construct) of the Transcontinental Railroad, _6_(cater) to Chinese miner...
SAN FRANCISCO, May 7 (Xinhua) -- Chinese railroad workers were highly disciplined and well organized, and they made huge contributions to the first American Transcontinental Railroad that put the United States on a path to economic prosperity, a docent of the California State Railroad Museum told ...
无论怎样受排挤和压制,华裔在美国各方面的建设中都做出了很大的贡献。较远的例子是横跨大陆铁路建设,a race of people who had built the Great Wall of China could build a railroad(建造了中国万里长城的民族,也能修好一条铁路)。二战期间,大量在美华人也毁家纾难,捐款捐物乃至捐躯,很多故事都让人唏嘘万分。
The Transcontinental Railroad in America is a 1,912-mile (3,077 km) continuous rail line linking the eastern U.S. rail network with the Pacific coast. Between 1863 and 1869, some 12,000 Chinese immigrants endured harsh working and living conditions to help build the mega project which later...
WONG: And Chinese immigrants arrived in the West in two big waves, first during the California gold rush of the 1850s and then to build the transcontinental railroad about a decade later. The new arrivals were mostly working-age, able-bodied men. Nancy Qian is a professor of economics at ...
workers to build a transcontinental railroad.1868 First transcontinental railroad is completed.1870 Chinese American population in US is 63,199 out of a total population of 38.5 million.1871 Anti-Chinese violence erupts in Los Angeles and other cities. Such violence continues throughout the decade....
(cater) to Chinese miners and railroad workers. Chinese restaurants used to be one of the few public places(7)___welcomed African-American diners. Besides, Jewish customers were also welcomed because Chinese owners and waiters had no history of prejudice toward them. Therefore, (8)___makes ...
Seven years ago, Chang launched the Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project to give a voice to Chinese migrant workers whose labor helped shape the physical and social landscape of the American West. "I've always been interested in railroad workers, because it's part of Chinese commun...