Introduction
1. The Chinese Banquet: Cultivating Chinese Political Power at the Dinner Table
2. Brawny Appetites: White Masculinity, Dining in Chinatown, and Gastroliberalism
3. Popular Estimation: A New Theory of Exclusion and the Legal Status of Restaurant Owners
4. Making Chinese Restaurants American: Li Hongzhang’s 1896 Visit and a New Gastrodiplomacy
5. An Angry Chinese Lady: Mai Zhu’s Detention and the Public Campaign to Free Her
6. Chop Suey Desire: White Women’s Pursuit of Pleasure in Chinese Restaurants
7. Claiming Treaty Rights: Maximizing the 1915 Restaurant Cases with Chinese Business Practices
Conclusion

Acknowledgments
Appendix: Chinese Restaurant Return Dataset
Abbreviations
Notes
Index