Chronicles the systematic removal of Chinese Americans in California during the latter half of the nineteenth century, and documents how citizens and politicians brutally purged thousands of Chinese from their homes and communities.

Introduction : The Chinese called it Pai Hua, or The Driven Out -- Gold! : "Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must" -- Dead branches -- The woman's tale : "in case I should be kidnapped" -- The Eureka method : "we have no Chinese" -- The Truckee method: fire and ice -- The Chinese rewrite the letter of the law -- A litany of hate : the 1880s -- The dog tag law -- Conclusion : "no place for a Chinaman.".