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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Before Plague | |
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| The People of Tang in San Francisco | |
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| A Migrant from Taishan | |
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| Framing Chinese Space | |
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| Lifestyles and Governance | |
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| Politics and Violence | |
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| Guarding Life and the Way of Death | |
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| Wong's Illness and Folk Religion | |
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| Cultivating Vitality | |
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| Shelters and Dispensaries | |
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| Corpses and Bones | |
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| Sanitation, Microbes, and Plague | |
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| Issuing Death Certificates | |
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| From Miasma to Germs | |
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| Sanitation in Chinatown | |
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| Third Plague Pandemic | |
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| The Final Diagnosis | |
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| Officials, Mandarins, and the Press | |
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| San Francisco and Its Health Officials | |
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| The Lords of Chinatown | |
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| Partner or Foe? The Governor and the State Health Board | |
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| "Warriors of Epidemics": The Marine Hospital Service | |
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| "Playing with Ink": Western and Chinese Journalism in San Francisco | |
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| Plague | |
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| Early Scenes of Terror: March-June 1900 | |
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| Roping Chinatown: First Plague Diagnosis and Quarantine | |
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| New Deaths: Searches, Vaccinations, and Fear of Detention | |
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| "Wolf Doctors" Hunt for Plague | |
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| Turmoil: Another Quarantine and a Federal Lawsuit | |
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| The Siege Continues: June-December 1900 | |
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| Federal Quarantine of California: A Political Blunder | |
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| Valuable Real Estate: Planning Chinatown's Removal | |
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| Plague Diagnoses: A Quarrel between Experts | |
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| Tarnished Image: Plague, Boxers, and Reformers | |
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| Plague Goes Underground: 1901 | |
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| Expert Opinion: Adventures of a Federal Commission | |
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| Persona Non Grate: The Ouster of Kinyoun | |
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| Odd Bedfellows: The Federal, State, and City Cleanup | |
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| Hide and Seek: Tracking Sick and Dead Chinese Residents | |
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| Rumors and Realities: 1902 | |
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| San Francisco Stand-off: Mayor versus Health Board | |
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| No Plague: "Ostrich" Policies under Fire | |
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| Federal Officials Target People and Rats | |
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| "Beating the Tiger": A Mandarin's Downfall | |
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| National Threat: 1903 | |
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| Is San Francisco Infected? Health Conferences and Railroads | |
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| Leaders under Pressure: A Shift in Health Policies | |
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| Real Estate and the Plan to Raze Chinatown | |
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| Chinese Cooperation: Joint Sanitary Inspections | |
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| Sanitarians Claim Victory: 1904-1905 | |
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| Puppet Show: San Francisco's New Health Board | |
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| Dawn of a Public Health Fraternity | |
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| Targeting Rats: Poisons and Demolitions | |
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| The Oriental City Project | |
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| Pyrrhic Victory | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| San Francisco Plague Cases | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |