追寻沉默的美国铁路华工——以中国近现代广东五邑侨乡文书为中心的探讨

发布时间：2018-07-31 08:47

【摘要】：美国铁路华工在美国西部开发中做出了卓越的贡献。已有的研究成果大都以美国为中心,主要根据美国官方或者私人的档案和新闻媒体、铁路华工后代的追忆,以及学者的田野调查资料来建构铁路华工的历史,华工群体自己的声音严重缺失。21世纪以来,在素有"北美华侨之乡"的江门五邑地区发现的晚清、民国时期的各类侨乡文书,为追寻"沉默的铁路华工"的历史,倾听他们的声音,建构研究中的华工视野、侨乡视野、中国视野提供了可能。透过侨乡文书可以发现,铁路华工主动筹款出洋,通过美国—香港—侨乡的商业网络给家眷寄送侨汇和家信。铁路华工通过拼搏奋斗源源不断地输入血汗钱和思想观念,提升了家庭的经济和社会地位,编织起侨乡民众赖以谋生的移民网络,启动并促进了广东五邑侨乡的现代化进程。
[Abstract]:American Railway Chinese workers have made outstanding contributions to the development of the American West. Most of the existing research results are centered on the United States. They are mainly based on the official or private archives and news media of the United States, the recollection of future generations of railway Chinese workers, and the fieldwork materials of scholars to construct the history of railway Chinese workers. Since the 21st century, in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, all kinds of documents found in the Wuyi region of Jiangmen, known as the "hometown of overseas Chinese in North America," were in pursuit of the history of "silent railway Chinese workers." Listening to their voices and constructing the Chinese workers' visual field, the overseas Chinese hometown vision and the Chinese vision provide the possibility. Through overseas Chinese documents, it can be found that Chinese railway workers actively raise funds abroad and send remittances and letters to their families through the U.S.-Hong Kong-overseas Chinese Home Business Network. Railway Chinese workers continuously input hard-earned money and ideas through hard work and struggle to enhance the economic and social status of the family, weave the migrant network on which the people of overseas Chinese rely for a living, and start and promote the modernization process of the hometown of overseas Chinese in Wuyi, Guangdong Province.
【作者单位】：五邑大学广东侨乡文化研究中心;
【基金】：广东省哲学社会科学“十二五”规划2013年度特别委托项目“清末民国时期广府华侨社会资本与移民网络:以华侨书信为主要文献”(GD13TW01-13)的阶段性成果
【分类号】：D829.712

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