Gordon H. Chang

Historian Gordon H. Chang is Olive H. Palmer Professor in Humanities at Stanford University. His areas of interest include the historical connections between race and ethnicity in America, on the one hand, and foreign relations, on the other, and trans-Pacific relations in their diplomatic as well as their cultural and social dimensions.

His publications are in the areas of U.S. diplomacy, America-China relations, the Chinese diaspora, Asian American history, and global history. His most recent books have examined the history of Chinese railroad workers in America in the 19th century: The Chinese and the Iron Road Building the Transcontinental Railroad and Ghosts of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad. His earlier books include

Asian American Art: A History, 1850-1970 and Friends and Enemies: The United States, China, and the Soviet Union, 1948-1972.