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The diary of Dukesang Wong : a voice from Gold Mountain

The diary of Dukesang Wong : a voice from Gold Mountain

Book 2020

"Here is the only known first-person account from a Chinese worker on the famously treacherous parts of transcontinental railways that spanned the North American continent in the nineteenth century. The story of those Chinese workers has been told before, but never in a voice from among their number, never in a voice that lived through the experience. Here is that missing voice, a voice that changes our understanding of the history it tells and t...