Introduction

Chapter One：Sociological Frameworks ofthe Assimilation Model

A The Melting Pot Assumptions

B．Criticisms from the Alternative of Pluralism

C．Conceptualization ofAssimilation

Chapter Two：Other Conceptual Issues Surrounding Assimilation

an implication of cultural and structural theories

Chapter Three：Historical Background of Chinese Arrival and Demographic Distribution （1850-1900）

A．Entry Channel

B．Entry Motivations

C．Legislative History

D．Occupational Adjustment

E．Residential Development

Chapter Four：Institutionalization of the Chinese Community（1850-1900）

A．Control by the Merchant Elites

B．Struggle From the Proletariats

C．The Chinese Six Companies（CCBA）

Chapter Five：Interethnic Contact and Attitude Toward Chinese Sojourners

A．Factors Leading to Sinophobia

B．Negative Stereotypes of a Bachelors’Society

C．Chinese Women in America

Chapter Six：The Chinese Arrival in a Socio-political Context

A．Impact upon the U.S.Colonial Capitalism

B．Impact upon the Frontier Economy

C．The Upsurge of Racism and Its impact on the Concept of Melting Pot

Chapter Seven：Historical Background of the Chinese in America（1900-1990）

A．Legislations Governing the Chinese Entry

B．The Illegal Entry in the Early Twentieth Century

C．Chinatowns Before 1943

D．Citizenship

E．The Student-intellectual Group

Chapter Eight：Demographic Composition Before the Seventies

A．Geographical Distribution

B．Sex Ratio

C．Marital Status

D．Fertility

E．Nativity

F．Occupations in Transition

G Residential Mobility

Chapter Nine：The Chinese Under the Asian Category in a Broader Perspective of the U．S．Immigration Policy（1900-1968）

Chapter Ten：The Chinese Community in Transition

A．The Chinese Immigrant Family

B．The New Orientation of Chinatown Organizations

C．Chinatowns After 1970

Chapter Eleven：Problems Encountered in Acculturation During the First Stage of Assimilation Before the Seventies（Ⅰ）

A．Language and Cultural Conflict

B．Religion and Cultural Conflict

C．Childrearing and Socialization Style

Chapter Twelve：Problems Encountered in Acculturation During the First Stage of Assimilation Before the Seventies （Ⅱ）

D．Intergenerational Estrangement

E．Juvenile Delinquency and Marginalization

F．Family Disorganization and Community Restructuring

Chapter Thirteen：Economic Mobility as a Dimension of Structural Assimilation：The Socio-economic Profile of Chinese Americans in Comparison With Other Ethnic Groups（U.S.census data as of 1980 and 1990）

Chapter Fourteen：A Comparison Between Asians and Blacks in the United States in seeking an explanation

Chapter Fifteen：Accommodation of Conjugal Relations and Attitudes Toward Interracial Marriage as Indicators of the Last Stage of Assimilation

A．Sex Role and Matrimonial Attitudes

B．Conjugal Accommodation

C．Interracial Marriage of Chinese Americans in Comparison With Other Ethnic Group

Conclusion：A Note on the Assimilation Model in the Context of Racism

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