Bowl Of Tea

After the first wave of Chinese immigrants arrived in the United States in the early 1840s during the California Gold Rush, many Chinese people continued to travel across the Pacific, escaping poor conditions in China with hopes and ambitions for a better life in America. Many more Chinese immigrants began arriving into the 1860s on the Pacific coast for work in other areas such as the railroad industry. The immigrants noticed an increasing demand for their labor because of their readiness to work for low wages. Many of those who arrived did not plan to stay long, and therefore there was no push for their naturalization. The immigrants left a country with thousands of years of a “decaying feudal system,” corruption, a growing

During the westward expansion, two thirds of the four thousand Transcontinental railroad workers were Chinese. The Central Pacific Railroad Company hoped to get over five thousand workers, although by 1864, they only had six hundred. The first Chinese workers were then hired By Central Pacific to do the hard and dangerous work. The Chinese previously worked on other railroads and built the Great Wall. The laborers working on the Transcontinental Railroad faced the greatest difficulty during the Westward expansion because of Dangers in work environment, discrimination, and troubles in daily life.

My topic is about the railroad Chinese workers that worked on the central pacific railroad. The Pacific Railroad Act was passed in 1866. This act created the Union Pacific that started in Omaha, Nebraska heading west and the Central Pacific starting in Sacramento, California heading east. The railroad was built to connect California to the Union. But to make the railroad you need workers. The Union had set flayers needing 5,000 workers but only about 600 showed up for the job. The Chinese were hired to work on the railroad after the Union saw that they needed more workers. The Chinese workers did the most dangerous jobs working with explosives and working under harsh weather. Despite this they were paid the least compared to the other workers.

From 1849 through the start of the 20th century, the first Chinese who immigrated to the United States struggled with many challenges against their race and objectives. They traveled abroad with hopes of returning to their home country with wealth and power to support the family that remained in China. Introduced as aliens with a culture and lifestyle that was different from the American race, the Chinese were given the impressions as an inferior group of people and were seen as threats to the Americans’ job securities. In 1860, immigration numbers augmented rapidly when the Central Pacific Railroad Company requested workers to build the western segment of the Transcontinental Railroad (stretches from California to Utah). By 1870, the census counted 49, 310 Chinese in California, making up about 8.5 percent of the state’s population. Many Americans saw the increasing numbers of the Chinese living in California as a spreading disease. Bayard Talor, a 19th century American poet, described the Chinese as “morally, the most debased people on the face of the earth. Their touch is pollution, … and [they] should not be allowed to settle on our soil.” Determined to rid the country of this “pollution,” Americans sought methods to terminate their entry to the Western border states, specifically California. Throughout the later decades of the 19th century, the Californian government enforced laws that limited Chinese rights, and with each one, a tighter reign was drawn on the

Hi Hakim, The problem with the railroad workers was serious. As you mention in your post several work related incidents were overlooked, many were lamed or even killed working on the railroad. For years, this event was covered up. I believe what help the citizens to realize how dangerous the working conditions be the journalist. In that era, they were called the muckraker. The Muckrakers targeted corrupted business and their illegal practices. (Diner, 1998). The muckraker were the ones that exposed deplorable working conditions, big business corruption, unfair wages and child labor. Changes in society started to improve when the public became aware of the conditions.

Firstly, the Act of July 1, 1862 was a Congress permit that allowed the Union Pacific Railroad Company to lay down, maintain, and operate a long array of railroad tracks and telegraph lines. However, the problem was how the company was going to develop the tracks and telegraph through unknown terrain. The solution was to bring Chinese and Irish immigrants to build the tracks. Moreover, the railroad company hired native-born whites, Mexican Americans, and former African American slaves, but over 10,000 Chinese workers were brought to the United States. The job of a railroad worker was extremely dangerous and earned very little pay. The workers were

It is often said that America's railroads were built on the backs of its Chinese immigrants. "Perhaps the most famous contribution of Chinese immigrants was the construction of the first transcontinental railroad. Chinese immigrants comprised 90% of the 10,000 laborers who laid tracks eastward from Sacramento across the Sierra Nevada and Rocky Mountains to connect with the Union Pacific crews laying tracks across the Great Plains. Railroad entrepreneurs even began a campaign to recruit workers in China" (The Chinese in California, n.d. Library of Congress). Chinese immigrants were willing to undertake the hard labor, simply because they could not find work elsewhere. While Caucasian immigrants were able to profit in the Pacific Northwest through agricultural and entrepreneurial endeavors, because of the racism Chinese immigrants faced, they had few other options to find work other than on the railroads.

Contemporary fears about immigration and globalization have direct precedents in American History. During the second half of the 19th Century, America’s West Coast faced an influx of Chinese migrants. Because of their willingness to work for low wages and their visible cultural differences, the Chinese were hated wherever they went. In the small coal mining town of Rock Ridge, Wyoming, these prevalent racist attitudes boiled over into an act of extreme violence in 1885. Tensions between whites and Chinese had been building for years before the incident, with the 1875 hiring of Chinese laborers to break a white strike in the coal mines being especially inflammatory. On September 2nd, 1885, a dispute between Chinese and White miners led to

I listen to a great deal of leadership material while in my truck. Just to give you perspective, I drive about a thousand miles a week for work. This audio of Andy Stanley is at the top of the list. It is interesting that this will be our writing topic for the week, because as I listened my thoughts were on the problem. As the presentation of Andy, I asked myself this question, “what bowl of stew will it take for me to hire the guy that has what appears to be shady (tapping his life shadows) ethics as it relates to sharing proprietary information? Will my shadow for advancement be over whelming to the point I will have a lapse in my judgment or in my character and hire this guy for my personal gain? Does the most powerful person in the room come into play as it relates to this hire? If yes, how will I give this power to others to make a team decision instead of a personal decision? I ponder these things as I listen to the audio and relate them to our “problem.”

Prior to being barred from working in mines, the Chinese found themselves fearing for their safety. Chinese miners worked together in groups in order to protect one another from violence that resulted from anti-Chinese sentiment. 3 As the Chinese were forced into other means of employment beyond mining, they were seen as threatening an even greater variety of jobs held by others who sought to profit from the mining

The Satsuma Ware Tea Bowl is from Hankizan, Japan from the Meiji Period. It is earthenware with low-fire enamel decoration. The fall aesthetic is extremely evident on this piece of pottery. The coloring of the pottery is mostly oranges, browns, and dark greens. There are also a few bright colors like blue and pink, but those are subdued by the other colors. The interior design use of chrysanthemums is pivotal in the fall aesthetic. Chrysanthemums are a flower associated with fall not only in Asia but also in the United States. As fresh chrysanthemums were essential in the homecoming mum tradition throughout the southern United States. The fall aesthetic is mostly evident within the interior design use of chrysanthemums.

They thought as long as those large numbers of Chinese laborers remained to work in menial jobs, they were not seen as a threatened competitor with them to the job market. The Chinese had been popular once. They were brought over from California in large numbers by the railroad builders when cheap labor was needed. The stories of Chinese workers’ prowess as construction workers almost reached the status of folk legend. Chinese labors could work twelve hours on a handful of rice; They could calmly handle blasting jobs that other men were too fearful to complete… As the final sections of track were finished, most of these workers chose to stay in Washington territory and working into some other industries. The fact that the Chinese were used to receiving much less the white workers. Nevertheless, within the construction boom over and business slow, the competition for every job was intensely in the country. Worse still, the panic of economic competition normally increased prejudice. The laborious, sedulous Chinese who were willing to work for any jobs, to accept any wages, gradually became symbols of discontent to the unemployed (Morgan

I still recall the first time at the teahouse. It was a Sunday evening and a trio played classical Chinese tunes as I sipped my tea alone, completely engrossed in thought. The tea I ordered gave me some refreshment. It was smooth and sublime, with flavors of crisp apples and sun-sweet tangerines. As I was

While the Chinese were originally welcomed as a source of low-wage labor, they later experienced a severe backlash as the Gold Rush came to an end and the transcontinental railroad was complete, leaving a large population of Chinese immigrants and American settlers in search of jobs, bringing out a fierce competition between the two groups. Chinese workers, who were often willing to work for less than their American counterparts, increasingly faced discriminatory state and local laws and violent

In its simplest form, a Tea Party is defined as “a social gathering in the afternoon at which tea, cakes and other light refreshments are served.” Dating back into the 1700 's, tea etiquette and its popularity can be traced back to Charles II and his wife, Catherine of Braganza. Born of Portuguese descent, Catherine already know of and was fond of tea, as it was a preferred beverage of Portugal (Afternoon.com). Becoming known as the “tea-drinking Queen” she is regarded as the first of England 's queens to participate in this tradition. However, Tea Parties made their scene when Queen Anna began to hold “afternoon tea” while eating light refreshments in her chambers, as well as inviting her friends to attend her tea time with