Hidden Heritage: Historical Archaeology of the Overseas Chinese

Hidden Heritage: Historical Archaeology of the Overseas Chinese, edited by Priscilla Wegars. Amityville, NY: Baywood Publishing Company, Inc., 1993; xvii + 430 pages, illustrations, index, bibliographies. All authors' royalties benefit the Asian American Comparative Collection. To order, call 1-800-638-7819.

Table of Contents:

Part One: Rural Contexts

• The Documentary Record of an Overseas Chinese Mining Camp, by Darby C. Stapp
• Archaeological Evidence of Chinese Use along the Lower Salmon River, Idaho, by David A. Sisson
• Idaho's Chinese Mountain Gardens, by Jeffrey M. Fee
• The Study of Faunal Remains from an Overseas Chinese Mining Camp in Northern Idaho, by Julia G. Longenecker and Darby C. Stapp

• The Overseas Chinese in El Paso: Changing Goals, Changing Realities, by Edward Staski
• Inventory Records of Ceramics and Opium from a Nineteenth-Century Chinese Store in California, by Ruth Ann Sando and David L. Felton
• Animal Bones from Historic Urban Chinese Sites: A Comparison of Sacramento, Woodland, Tucson, Ventura, and Lovelock, by Sherri M. Gust

• The Chinese Cannery Workers of Warrendale, Oregon, 1876-1930, by John L. Fagan
• Besides Polly Bemis: Historical and Artifactual Evidence for Chinese Women in the West, 1848-1930, by Priscilla Wegars
• Chinese Opium Smoking Techniques and Paraphernalia, by Jerry Wylie and Richard E. Fike

• The Manganese/Cobalt Ratio in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Asian Porcelain, by Harvey Steele
• Sourcing and Dating of Asian Porcelains by Elemental Analysis, by Alison Stenger

• Form and Adaptation: Nineteenth Century Chinese Miners' Dwellings in Southern New Zealand, by Neville A. Ritchie
• Old Approaches and New Directions: Implications for Future Research, by Roberta S. Greenwood