Prologue: A Stroke of the Pen
1. Origins: The Toisan California Pipeline
2. The Culinary "Language" Barrier
3. "Celestials" on Gold Mountain
5. The Birth of Chinese American Cuisine
6. Change, Interchange, and the First Successful "Translators"
7. White America Rediscovers Chinese Cuisine
8. An Advancement of Learning
9. The First Age of Race-Blind Immigration
Postscript: What Might Have Been.