Contents

1. Title Page
2. Dedication
3. The Coffin Maker
4. Run of the Molars
5. Rap of the Tiger Mother
6. Chronicles of a Culinary Poseur
7. Face
8. A Thoroughly Modern Ghost of Other Origin
9. Confessions of an Irresolute Ethnic Writer
10. The Heartsick Diaspora
11. Chinese Almanac
12. Florida Rednecks Love Moo Goo Gai Pan
13. Friends of the Kookaburra
14. The Chinese Nanny
15. Love, Nude
16. Mapping Three Lives Through a Red Rooster Chamber Pot
17. Awards and original sources
18. Acknowledgements
19. About the author
20. Copyright