The old country: Imperial China in the nineteenth century
America, a new hope
"Never Fear, and You Will Be Lucky", journey and arrival in San Francisco
Gold rushers on Gold Mountain
Building the transcontinental railroad
Life on the western frontier
Spreading across America
Rumblings of hatred
Chinese Exclusion Act
Work and survival in the early twentieth century
New generation is born
Chinese America during the Great Depression
"The Most Important Historical Event of Our Times", World War II
"A Mass Inquisition", the Cold War, the Chinese Civil War, and McCarthyism
New arrivals, new lives, the chaotic 1960s
Taiwanese Americans
Bamboo curtain rises, Mainlanders and model minorities
Decade of fear, the 1990s
High tech vs. low tech
Uncertain future.