Kam Wah Chung Letters (1898–1903)
part ii: life under exclusion, 1904–1943
Ng Poon Chew, The Treatment of the Exempt Classes of Chinese in the U.S. (1908)
Detention in the Wooden Building (1910)
Chin Gee Hee, Letter Asking for Support to Build the Sunning Railroad (1911)
Chinese-American Citizens’ Alliance, Admission of Wives of American Citizens of Oriental Ancestry (1926)
Gong Yuen Tim, “Just plain old luck and good timing:” Reminiscences of a Gold Mountain Man (1988)
Helen Hong Wong, “I was the only Chinese woman in town:” Reminiscences of a Gold Mountain Woman (1982)
Pardee Lowe, Second-Generation Dilemmas (1930s)
Anna May Wong, I Am Growing More Chinese—Each Passing Year! (1934)
Declaration of the Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance (1933)
Chinese Women’s Association Condensed Report for the Years 1932–1936
Happy Lim, Song of Chinese Workers (1938)
Lim P. Lee, Chinatown Goes Picketing (1938)
Liu Liangmo, Paul Robeson: The People’s Singer (1950)
Jew Baak Ming, The Founding of McGehee Chinese School (1944)
Eddie Fung, “There but for the grace of God go I:” The Story of a POW Survivor in World War II (2202)
Gilbert Woo, One Hundred and Seven Chinese (1943)
part iii: becoming an integral part of america, 1943–2003 000
Chinese News Service, San Francisco Chinese Papers Blame Immigration Practices in Suicide of Chinese Woman (1948)
Eddie Gong, I Want to Marry an American Girl (1955)
Hsue-shen Tsien, My Bitter Experience in the United States (1956)
Maurice Chuck, Father and Son (1995)
Ah Quon McElrath, “We gave workers a sense of dignity:” The Story of a Union Social Worker (1982)
Sheila Chin Morris, “All the daddies were Chinese and all the mommies were white:” Growing Up Biracial in Minnesota (2002)
Bonnie C. Lew, “I always felt out of place there:” Growing Up Chinese in Mississippi (1998)
Johnny Wong, “It was not a winnable war:” Remembering Vietnam (1998)
Jeffery Paul Chow, “I am a Chinaman:” An Interview with Frank Chin (1970)
L. Ling-chi Wang, Major Education Problems Facing the Chinese Community (1972)
On the Normalization of Relations Between China and the U.S.
Proclamation by the Chinese Six Companies of San Francisco (1971)
Gilbert Woo, A Turning Point in Chinatown (1979)
Sadie Lum, Asian American Women and Revolution: A Personal View (1983)
Shui Mak Ka, “In unity there is strength:” Garment Worker Speaks Out at Union Rally (1982)
Kitty Tsui, The Words of a Woman Who Breathes Fire (1983)
Helen Zia, The New Violence (1984)
Lily Wang, A Journey of Bitterness (1999)
Fu Lee, Immigrant Women Speak Out on Garment Industry Abuse (1993)
Jubilee Lau, Chinese and Proud of It (1996)
Marilee Chang Lin, Learning to See the Man Himself (1997)
Ellen D. Wu, The Best Tofu in the World Comes from . . . Indiana? (1998)
Binh Ha Hong, Reflections on Becoming American (1999)
Chang-Lin Tien, Affirming Affirmative Action (1995)
Alethea Yip, Countering Complacency: An Interview with OCA Director Daphne Kwok (1996)
“One mile, one hundred years:” Governor Gary Locke’s Inaugural Address (1997)
Kristie Wang, A Second-Generation Call to Action (1999)
Cheuk-Yin Wong, The Los Alamos Incident and Its Effects on Chinese American Scientists (2000)
David Ho, “We are Americans:” The Story behind Time Magazine’s Man of the Year (2003)
chronology of chinese american history
chinese glossary
bibliography
index