Always The Other: The Image Of The "Guests Of The Golden Mountain" From The Intercultural Perspective

TitleAlways the Other: The Image of the"Guests of the Golden Mountain"from the Intercultural PerspectiveContentsThe Central Pacific Railroad completed in 1869 is the first transcontinental railroad from the east to the west in the United States. It has not only made the United States of America truly"United States"but it has also been renowned as the"greatest project in the 19th century."For this project, thousands of Chinese laborers went overseas to the United States, who had become the main labor force in constructing the railroad. Afterwards, the Chinese laborers joined in constructing many other railroads in North America, who had greatly contributed to the local social and economic developments.It is due to the forces of"pushing"and"pulling"between the East and the West that made it possible for the Chinese laborers to go overseas to the United States for the railroad construction. When the East and the West met in the construction of the Pacific Railroad, the meeting of the rail tracks gradually turned to their digression. For over a hundred years, many different texts concerning the"guests of the Golden Mountain"on the Pacific Railroad have appeared, ranging from fiction to non-fiction, from material forms to non-material forms such as official reports, fictional cartoons, folk ballads, school homework, movie documentaries, architectural relics, etc. In addition, different analyses on these texts also originated. Unfortunately, until now such analyses or such comprehensive and in-depth analyses have almost all come from the West. More unfortunately, most of the"texts"have also come from the West, which is quite an imbalance and"aphasia."For that matter, we must first of all recover the historical mirror image—which can somewhat truly reflect the realities of the"guests of the Golden Mountain"on the Pacific Railroad: who they were, why they came, how they worked, how they lived, and all their happiness and sorrow or their separation and reunion.Secondly, we must research for all the related"texts"and rearrange them. This is perhaps the very...