由著名美国史专家黄安年教授编著的《沉默的道钉——建设北美铁路的华工》,是一本难得的图文并茂、雅俗共赏的好书。本书所涉主题——建设北美铁路的华工,是跨太平洋联系的中国-美洲关系的重要篇章,这无论是在中美、中加人民的友谊史上还是在美洲新大陆的开发史上, The book “The Silence Crucifixion - Chinese Workers in North American Railway Construction”, edited by Professor Huang An-nian, a famous American historian, is a rare book with excellent pictures and illustrations and elegant and popular tastes. The topic of this book, the laborers who built the North American Railway, is an important chapter in the Sino-American relations across the Pacific. Whether in the history of the friendship between China and the United States, the People’s Republic of China or the new continent of the Americas,