Litquake 2019 Festival

NOTE: THIS EVENT IS FULL TO CAPACITY. VERY LIMITED SEATING MAY BE AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR.

Co-presented by Chinese Culture Center, San Francisco

They came by the thousands, escaping war and poverty in southern China to seek their fortunes working to build the Transcontinental Railroad. These migrants spent years dynamiting tunnels through the snow-packed cliffs of the Sierra Nevada and laying tracks across the burning Utah desert, helping fuel the ascent of an interlinked, industrial United States. But survivors were pushed first to the margins of American life, and then to the fringes of public memory. Award-winning scholar Gordon H. Chang discusses his groundbreaking book Ghosts of Gold Mountain. FREE, advance registration suggested