[investigateworld]

RE: Chinese railroad workers.
There is an excellent book on the subject; The Chinese in America, by Iris Chang*. They did return home, often with large savings to the extent they became landowners and shopkeepers.
The main proponents of massive immigration from China were the robber-barrons, Crocker, Stanford, Huntington et. al.

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* The singular downside to FR is the number of well written and informative books mentioned here by people who share the same values. Hard to keep up!

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