Contents -- Foreword by Václav Havel -- Introduction by Perry Link -- Part I: Politics with Chinese Characteristics -- Listen Carefully to the Voices of the Tiananmen Mothers: Reading the Unedited Interview Transcripts of Family Members Bereaved by the Massacre -- Poem: Your Seventeen Years -- Poem: Standing amid the Execrations of Time -- To Change a Regime by Changing a Society -- The Land Manifestos of Chinese Farmers -- Xidan Democracy Wall and China's Enlightenment -- The Spiritual Landscape of the Urban Young in Post- Totalitarian China -- Poem: What One Can Bear -- Poem: A Knife Slid into the World -- Bellicose and Thuggish: The Roots of Chinese "Patriotism" at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century -- State Ownership of Land Is the Authorities' Magic Wand for Forced Eviction -- A Deeper Look into Why Child Slavery in China's "Black Kilns" Could Happen -- The Significance of the "Weng'an Incident" -- Part II: Culture and Society -- Epilogue to Chinese Politics and China's Modern Intellectuals -- On Living with Dignity in China -- Poem: Looking Up at Jesus -- Elegy to Lin Zhao, Lone Voice of Chinese Freedom -- Ba Jin: The Limp White Flag -- Poem: Alone in Winter -- Poem: Van Gogh and You -- The Erotic Carnival in Recent Chinese History -- Poem: Your Lifelong Prisoner -- From Wang Shuo's Wicked Satire to Hu Ge's Egao: Political Humor in a Post-Totalitarian Dictatorship -- Yesterday's Stray Dog Becomes Today's Guard Dog -- Poem: My Puppy's Death -- Long Live the Internet -- Imprisoning People for Words and the Power of Public Opinion -- Part III: China and the World -- Behind the "China Miracle" -- Behind The Rise of the Great Powers -- Poem: To St. Augustine -- Poem: Hats Off to Kant -- The Communist Party's "Olympic Gold Medal Syndrome" -- Hong Kong Ten Years after the Handover.

So Long as Han Chinese Have No Freedom, Tibetans Will Have No Autonomy -- Poem: One Morning -- Poem: Distance -- Obama's Election, the Republican Factor, and a Proposal for China -- Part IV: Documents -- The June Second Hunger Strike Declaration -- Poem: You - Ghosts - The Defeated -- A Letter to Liao Yiwu -- Poem: Feet So Cold, So Small -- Using Truth to Undermine a System Built on Lies: Statement of Thanks in Accepting the Outstanding Democracy Activist Award -- Charter 08 -- My Self-Defense -- I Have No Enemies: My Final Statement -- The Criminal Verdict: Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People's Court Criminal Judgment No. 3901 (2009) -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index.