Contents
Acknowledgments
Territorial Period
Chinese Lodgings and Occupations
Chinese Solidarity and Associations
Social Stratification
Statehood Period
Excavation of Features
Sucy Yuen Compound
Ying On Compound
Culinary Artifacts
Ceramic Shipping Containers for Foodstuffs
Kitchen, Cooking, and Eating Tools
Late Qing Tableware
Modern Tableware or Houseware
Foodstuffs Suggesting Ethic Preference
Clothing and Toiletries
Housewares
Artifacts Associated with Writing
Games
Coins
Ceramic Spirits Bottles
Artifacts Associated with Opium Use
Artifacts Associated with the Chee Kung Tong Organization
Banners
Musical Instruments
Business Records
Ying On Merchants and Labor Benevolent Association
4. Euro-American Artifacts from Chinese Proveniences
The Ethnographic Record
Reverse Diffusion
The 36 Oaths
The 21 Regulations
Appendix B. Chinese Inscriptions on Selected Artifacts of Medicinal Use - translated and interpreted by John W. Olsen
Appendix C. Inscriptions on Ceramic Opium Pipe Bowls - translated and interpreted by John W. Olsen; Chinese characters drawn by Hong Yu
References
Index
Abstract