1. Early Images－Exotic Visitors 1
2. California’s Earliest Chinese Sojourners: Speculative Origins 17
3. Early Welcome and Opposition: Writer Carson and Governor Bigler 39
4. Initial Chinese-White Cooperation and Conflict 57
5. Anti-Chinese Violence and Legal Harassment 82
6. Chinese Labor: Genuine Competition and Perceived Threat 95
7. Economic Depression and Distorted Images: Mounting Hostility 115
8. American Politics in Command: Chinese Immigrants in Decline 136
9. The Mississippi Chinese: Convenient Conformers, Isolated Strangers 155
10. Demographic Details－A Changing Scene 184
11. Statistical Reservations, Geographical Distribution, Sex Ratio, Marriage, and Family 194
12. Education, Livelihood, and Housing 207
13. Mortality, Health, Crime, and Summary 220
14. Chinatown in New York: Busting Out All Over 233
15. The Ever-Changing Chinese: Whither Now? 262
Bibliography 287
Index 293