"Published in conjunction with the exhibition Zhi LIN: In Search of the Lost History of Chinese Migrants and the Transcontinental Railroads, which appears at Tacoma Art Museum from June 27, 2017, through February 18, 2018. It takes part in the Northwest Perspective Series of one-person exhibitions devoted to artists of the region."

Shawn Wong is professor of English and comparative literature, cinema, and media at the University of Washington. Shelley Fisher Fishkin is co-director of the Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project at Stanford University. Rock Hushka is chief curator and curator of contemporary and Northwest art at Tacoma Art Museum.