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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Terminology and Transliterations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Lessons from My Mother's Past: Researching Chinese Women's Immigration History | |
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| Chin Lung's Affidavit, May 14, 1892 | |
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| Leong Shee's Testimony, April 18, 1893 | |
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| Leong Shee's Testimony, July 24, 1929 | |
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| Jew Law Ying's Coaching Book | |
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| Jew Law Ying's and Yung Hin Sen's Testimonies, April 2-3, 1941 | |
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| Oral History Interview with Jew Law Ying | |
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| Bound Feet: Chinese Women in the Nineteenth Century | |
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| Images of Women in Chinese Proverbs: "A Woman without Talent Is Virtuous" | |
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| Kwong King You, Sau Saang Gwa: "If I Could Just See Him One More Time" | |
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| A Stain on the Flag | |
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| Confession of a Chinese Slave-Dealer: How She Bought Her Girls, Smuggled Them into San Francisco, and Why She Has Just Freed Them | |
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| The Chinese Woman in America | |
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| Worse Than Slaves: Servitude of All Chinese Wives | |
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| Mary Tape, an Outspoken Woman: "Is It a Disgrace to Be Born a Chinese?" | |
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| Unbound Feet: Chinese Immigrant Women, 1902-1929 | |
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| Sieh King King, China's Joan of Arc: "Men and Women Are Equal and Should Enjoy the Privileges of Equals" | |
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| Madame Mai's Speech: "How Can It Be That They Look upon Us as Animals?" | |
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| No More Footbinding (Anonymous) | |
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| Wong Ah So, Filial Daughter and Prostitute: "The Greatest Virtue in Life Is Reverence to Parents" | |
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| Law Shee Low, Model Wife and Mother: "We Were All Good Women--Stayed Home and Sewed" | |
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| Jane Kwong Lee, Community Worker: "Devoting My Best to What Needed to Be Done" | |
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| The Purpose of the Chinese Women's Jeleab Association | |
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| First Steps: The Second Generation, 1920s | |
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| The Oriental Girl in the Occident, by One of the "Second Generation" | |
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| Manifestations of Modern Influences on Second Generation Chinese | |
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| Alice Sue Fun, World Traveler: "A Rebel at Heart" | |
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| Rose Yuen Ow, Cabaret Dancer: "I've Lived a Full Life" | |
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| Tiny | |
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| Some Rambling Thoughts on Why I Am a Christian | |
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| Story of a Chinese College Girl (The Conflict between the Old and the Young) | |
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| Flora Belle Jan, Flapper and Writer: "I Long for Unconventionality and Freedom" | |
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| Gladys Ng Gin, Cocktail Waitress: "That's What Happens When You're Illiterate" | |
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| Long Strides: The Great Depression, 1930s | |
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| Ethel Lum, Social Worker: "Careful Social Planning Needed" | |
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| Jane Kwong Lee, Community Worker: "A Richer Life for All" | |
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| Wong See Chan, Hardworking Wife and Mother: "The 1930s Were the Hardest" | |
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| Eva Lowe, Fighter for the Underdog: "You Have to Stand Up for Your Rights: Nobody Will Give You Anything for Nothing" | |
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| Alice Fong Yu, Schoolteacher and Community Organizer: "I Wanted to Help People, Not Run Their Lives" | |
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| Sue Ko Lee and the 1938 National Dollar Stores Strike: "It Changed Our Lives" | |
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| In Step: The War Years, 1931-1945 | |
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| Women's Role in the War of Resistance: "Everyone, Man and Woman, Has a Responsibility in the Rise and Fall of a Nation" | |
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| Lady P'ing Yu on War: "Women, Show Your Stuff" | |
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| Jane Kwong Lee, Community Worker: "To Save Our Motherland and Promote Our Status as Women" | |
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| Dr. Margaret Chung and the Fair-Haired Bastards Club: "Necessity Is the Mother of Invention" | |
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| Chinese in the United States Today: The War Has Changed Their Lives | |
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| Marinship Chinese Workers Are Building Ships to Free Their Home Land | |
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| May Lew Gee, Shipyard Worker: "I Was a Tacker on the Graveyard Shift" | |
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| Ruth Chan Jang, U.S. Air Corps Corporal: "I Would Love to Be Buried at Arlington" | |
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| Lai Yee Guey and Lorena How, Mother and Daughter: "Making Marks for Heaven" | |
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| Giving Voice to Chinese American Women: Oral History Methodology | |
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| Chinese Glossary | |
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| Index | |