Table of Contents:
  • Plea and protest: voices of early Chinese immigrants
  • Writings of the "cultivated Chinese": improving the image to win
  • Sympathy and acceptance
  • The voice of a Eurasian: Sui Sin Far and her writings
  • Seeking a place in American life: autobiographical writings of second-generation Chinese
  • What's in a name: Chinese-language literature in America
  • Immigration blues: themes and subject matter in Chinese-language
  • Literature since the 1960s
  • Multiple voices and the "war of words": Chinese American literature
  • In the contemporary era
  • Epilogue
  • English-Chinese glossary
  • English-Chinese bibliography
  • Selected bibliography
  • Index.