Men of Iron and the Transcontinental Railroad

We are pleased to invite you to attend a unique fireside chat focused on the Chinese laborers who were instrumental in the building of the American Transcontinental Railroad. The webcast will be held on September 24 at 8 pm EST and will include a question and answer period at the end of the one-hour broadcast.

Our two speakers will be Gordon Chang, the distinguished Stanford University history professor and Committee of 100 member, who has written extensively about the topic, including “Ghosts of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad (2019)”, and Jindong Cai, the Director of the U.S. China Music Institute at Bard, who is staging an extraordinary oratorio production of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, Zhou Long’s “Men of Iron and the Golden Spike” at the Rose Theater, Jazz at Lincoln Center on October 11. This large-scale symphonic oratorio honors the thousands of Chinese laborers who built the Transcontinental Railroad in the 1860s. The performance will feature an 80-piece orchestra, a 120-voice chorus, and six vocal soloists.