Manhattan music / Meena Alexander -- Rico / Pater Bacho -- I would remember / Carlos Bulosan -- Melpomene tragedy / Theresa Hak Kyng Cha -- The Chinese in Haifa / Jeffery Paul Chan -- Falling free / Diana Chang -- Natives / Fiona Cheong -- Moon / Marilyn Chin -- No sayang lost / Lawrence Chua -- Dragon seed / Kiana Davenport -- Eucalyptus / Hisaye Yamamoto DeSoto -- The bread of salt / N.V.M. Gonzalez -- Film noir / Jessica Hagedorn -- Afterbirth / Kimiko Hahn -- The water faucet vision / Gish Jen -- (exerpt from) The floating world / Cynthia Kadohata -- (exerpt from Tripmaster Monkey) Twisters and shouters / Maxine Hong Kingston -- (exerpt from) Itsuka / Joy Kogawa.

The connoisseur of chaos / Alex Kuo -- Safe / Cherylene Lee -- Geography one / Russell Leong -- Black Korea / Walter Lew -- This world / Jocelyn Lieu -- They like you becuase you eat dog, so what are you gonna do about it? / R. Zamora Linmark -- Pangs of love / David Wong Louie -- Fourscore and seven years ago / Darrell Lum -- Resistance / Laureen Mar -- (excerpt from) Thousand pieces of gold / Ruthanne Lum McCunn.

Razia begum in London / Ruxana Meer -- The chauvinist / Toshio Mori -- A father / Bharati Mukherjee -- Fictive fragments of a father and son / David Mura -- A red sweater / Fae Myenne Ng -- Chang / Sigrid Nunez -- (excerpts from) The stranded in the world / Han Ong -- Sugar & salt / Ninotchka Rosca -- Walk in closet / Kerri Sakamoto -- Immigration blues / Bienvenido Santos -- Faith / John J. Song.

Alien relative / Amy Tan -- Untitled story / Jose Garcia Villa -- Lenox Hiss, December 1991 / Marianne Villanueva -- Talking to the dead / Sylvia Watanabe -- Eye contact (excerpt from American knees) / Shawn Wong -- Face / Yoji Yamaguchi -- Empty heart / Lois Ann Yamanaka -- That was all / Wakako Yamauchi -- Photographs for an album (Third version) / John Yau.