Contents -- Introduction -- Thousand-Dollar Pig: A May 7 Cadres School in Henan -- A Foot of Mud and a Pile of Shit: Change in a Northern Village -- Chairman Mao's Letter to Li: City Girl in the Countryside -- Oil Man: Twenty Years of Oil Exploration -- Down with Stinking Intellectuals: The Revolution at Amoy University -- Little Brother's Wedding: Tradition in the Countryside -- Return to the Motherland: Searching for Roots in China -- Eating Pears in Fuzhou: Privilege, the Army, and Controls -- Frontier Town: Life Among the Tibetans -- Kill the Chickens To Scare the Monkeys: The Cultural Revolution in a Peking Office -- The One Whose Girlfriend Turned Him In: A Political Mistake That Cost a Career -- Rubber Man: The Army Grows Rubber on Hainan Island -- The One Who Loved Dog Meat: How a Bad Element Survived for Twenty-Five Years -- My Neighborhood: City Life and the Residents' Committee -- The Apprentice: Production and Politics in a Wuhan Factory -- Flying Kites on White Cloud Mountain: China's Youth at the Center of Change -- Notes.