  We study the binding of a holon and a spinon in the one-dimensional
anisotropic t-J model using a Bethe-Salpeter equation approach, exact
diagonalization, and density matrix renormalization group methods on chains of
up to 128 sites. We find that holon-spinon binding changes dramatically as a
function of anisotropy parameter \alpha=J_\perp/J_z: it evolves from an exactly
deducible impurity-like result in the Ising limit to an exponentially shallow
bound state near the isotropic case. A remarkable agreement between the theory
and numerical results suggests that such a change is controlled by the
corresponding evolution of the spinon energy spectrum.
