List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Imagining China: Early Nineteenth-Century Writings and Musical Productions
Toward Exclusion: American Popular Songs on Chinese Immigration, 1850-1882
Chinese and Chinese Immigrant Performers on the American Stage, 1830s-1920s
The Sounds of Chinese Otherness and American Popular Music, 1880s-1920s
From Aversion to Fascination: New Lyrics and Voices,1880s-1920s
The Rise of Chinese and Chinese American Vaudevillians, 1900s-1920s
Conclusion
Appendix A. American Popular Songs with Chinese Subjects or Themes
Appendix B. Musicals, Revues, and Plays Produced in the United States with Chinese Songs, Scenes, or Characters
Notes
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