Contents -- Notes on Terms and Translations -- An Invocation -- Introduction The Locations of History -- FIRST MOVEMENT-COMING TO THE WEST: Constructing the Oriental Problem -- A Setting -- 1 Professions of Faith: Missionaries, Sociologists, and the Survey of Race Relations, 1924-1926 -- 2 Thinking about Orientals: Chicago Sociologists and the Oriental Problem -- 3 Orientalism and the Mapping of Race -- 4 The Survey's Ends -- SECOND MOVEMENT-COMING TO CHICAGO: Asian Americans and the Oriental Problem -- 5 Wanted: Interpreters and Informants- Orientals, Please Apply -- 6 Language of Hope: The Oriental as Marginal Man -- 7 Language of Discontent: Using the Stranger's Perspective -- RETRACINGS-COMING TO AMERICA: The Oriental as an Intellectual/Object -- A Final Setting -- 8 Performers on Stage -- A Scene From Chinatown -- 9 American Orientalism as a Theory of Race, Space, and Identity -- 10 Legacies and Descendents -- An Epitaph -- Dramatis Personae -- Notes -- Bibliography of Primary Sources -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.