《THE CHINESE EXPERIENCE IN AMERICA》

I. The Nineteenth-Century Chinese Immigration1

1. Problems in the Old Country1

2. The Myth of Chinese Coolies2

3. Coming to the Gold Mountain8

4. In the Mines10

5. Building the Railroads15

6. In Agriculture, Fishing, and Other Industries20

7. Chinese Communities Outside of the West Coast24

II. The Development of the Early Chinese Community28

1. Chinese Culture Transplanted to America28

2. The Dark Side of the Old Chinatowns37

3. Chinese Religious Life42

4. The Six Companies45

5. Other Chinese Community Organizations51

III. American Exclusion against the Chinese56

I. Public Debate over the Chinese Issue56

2. The Exclusion Acts of 1882 and 188462

3. Outrages against the Chinese67

4. Chinese Immigration and Sino-American Relations72

5. Chinese Reaction to American Exclusion77

IV. Living in the Shadow of Exclusion90

1. Chinese Political Activities in America90

2. Building a New Image95

3. The Angel Island Stories99

4. Abnormal Lives during Normalcy104

5. The Great Depression Hits Chinatown107

6. Linkage with Wartime China110

7. World War II and the Chinese in America114

V. The Chinese-American Community in Transition:The Post-World War II Era119

1. The Stranded Chinese Students119

2. Chinese Cultural and Educational Activities124

3. Chinese Language Newspapers in America128

4. Internal Strife in Post-World War II Chinese-American Communities132

5. New Controversies over the Six Companies136

6. Art and Literature139

7. Chinese Christian Faith143

8. Transition in Social and Economic Lives147

VI Contemporary Chinese-American Society151

1. New Immigrants since 1965151

2. Chinese Women in a Changing American Society157

3. Chinese Children and Youths in a Multi-racial Society161

4. Red Guards versus Old Guards167

5. Protecting Diaoyutai Movement171

6. Chinese Americans and the Unification of China175

7. The Taiwanese Independent Movement in America179

Epilogue187

Appendixes193

1. Total Population of California County vs. Number of Chinese, 1870193

2. Chinese Population in Hawaii, 1853-198o193

3. Chinese Arrived in, and Departed from, the United States, 1882--1892194

4. World War II Chinese Draftees and Casualties in the U.S. Army194

1.major Occupational Groups of the Chinese in the United States,1940-1970195

2.NOTES196

3.BIBLIOGRAPHY214

4.INDEX220