5 Contents
7 Introduction: Contested Urban Space
8 1. "The Woman about Town": Transgressing Raced and Gendered Boundaries in Sui Sin Far’s Writings
9 2. Claiming Right to the City: Lin Yutang’s Chinatown Family
10 3. "Our Inside Story" of Chinatown: Fae Myenne Ng’s Bone
11 4. Chinatown as an Embattled Pedagogical Space: Frank Chin’s Short Story Cycle and Donald Duk
13 6. The City as a "Contact Zone": Meena Alexander’s Manhattan Music
14 7. "The Living Voice of the City": Chang-rae Lee’s Native Speaker
16 Conclusion: The I-Hotel and Other Places
17 Notes
18 Bibliography
19 Index
Introduction: Contested Urban Space
1 “The Woman about Town”: Transgressing Raced and Gendered Boundaries in Sui Sin Far’s Writings
2 Claiming Right to the City: Lin Yutang’s Chinatown Family
3 “Our Inside Story” of Chinatown: Fae Myenne Ng’s Bone
4 Chinatown as an Embattled Pedagogical Space: Frank Chin’s Short Story Cycle and Donald Duk
6 The City as a “Contact Zone”: Meena Alexander’s Manhattan Music
7 “The Living Voice of the City”: Chang-rae Lee’s Native Speaker
Conclusion: The I-Hotel and Other Places
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