Table of Contents:
  • Plea and protest: the voices of early Chinese immigrants
  • The writing of "cultivated Chinese": improving an image to win sympathy and acceptance
  • The voice of a Eurasian: Sui Sin Far and her writing
  • Seeking a place in American life: the autobiographical writing 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": contemporary Chinese American literature.