Men of Iron and the Golden Spike Will Honor Chinese Railroad Workers, Jindong Cai Writes on Bard–Stanford Collaboration

This year marks the 150th anniversary of the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad across the United States. The US-China Music Institute at the Bard College Conservatory of Music and the Stanford Center for East Asian Studies have collaborated with the Chinese Railroad Workers’ Project to commission a musical work, Men of Iron and the Golden Spike, to give voice to the thousands of Chinese workers who labored to build the railroad.

Post Date: 06-18-2019