Foreword : no equal justice for Chinese / Liping Zhu -- Preface : a personal commentary -- Reception. Anti-Chinese violence in the American West, 1850-1910 -- Chinese in trouble : criminal law and race on the trans-Mississippi West frontier -- California. People v. Hall (Cal, 1854) revisited -- The Chinese and California : a torturous legal relationship -- Chinese laundries and the Fourteenth Amendment -- Pacific Northwest. The Chinese and the courts in the Pacific Northwest : justice denied? -- The courts and the Chinese in frontier Idaho -- Law and Chinese in frontier Montana -- Southwest. Law and the Chinese on the Southwest frontier, 1850s-1902 -- Territory of New Mexico v. Yee Shun : a turning point in Chinese legal relationships in the trans-Mississippi West.