The primary labor contractor for the Central Pacific Railroad, Chang runs a small empire in Truckee, California's "Chinatown," providing food, sundries, opium, and whores to the Chinese workers he's contracted to the railroad. A former rebel who fought in the Taiping Rebellion, Chang is caught between the peasant Chinese workers and the railroad's white overlords, whose racist attitudes keep him in his place.
(Source: AMC)
