Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword: On Chineseness -- Preface -- 1. From the White Australia Policy to Multiculturalism: Chinese Immigrants and Chinese Language in Australia -- 2. Chinese Heritage Language and its Learners in the West: Empirical Knowledge, Theoretical Framework and Research Method -- 3. Sociological Mechanism for Learning Chinese as a Heritage Language in Australia: A Quantitative Investigation -- 4. A Qualitative Exploration of the Profits of Chinese Heritage Language Learning: You Reap What You Sow! -- 5. Learning Chinese as a Heritage Language: A Perplexed Project -- Bibliography -- Index