Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: "Violence and the sacred"
  • Ah Toy and Mary Tape : legal exceptionalism and early Chinese American women's voices
  • Wong Chin Foo : the excessive making and remaking of a heathen protofeminist
  • Trauma and activism : Yan Phou Lee writes back
  • Yung Wing : exceptional minority discourse in the plague era
  • Conclusion: The enfleshed exceptions.