Post by NZBC on Aug 1, 2008 18:28:19 GMT 12
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Written by Michelle Chung
I am the product of a diasporic migration that originated in China more than one hundred years ago. My paternal great, great, great- grandfather Man Lung departed from the 19th century colonial port city of Hong Kong bound for America as a laborer for the construction of the Sierra Nevada segment of the Transcontinental Railroad. The few existing photographs of these early laborers were meant to reflect the historical record of events and circumstances depicting the conditions under which they build the railroad. These photographs, however, reveal little of the unofficial history that would more accurately be told by the laborers themselves.
Written by Michelle Chung
I am the product of a diasporic migration that originated in China more than one hundred years ago. My paternal great, great, great- grandfather Man Lung departed from the 19th century colonial port city of Hong Kong bound for America as a laborer for the construction of the Sierra Nevada segment of the Transcontinental Railroad. The few existing photographs of these early laborers were meant to reflect the historical record of events and circumstances depicting the conditions under which they build the railroad. These photographs, however, reveal little of the unofficial history that would more accurately be told by the laborers themselves.