| Acknowledgments | xi |
| Back to the Future | 3 |
Part 1 | Don't Be Afraid of Democracy | |
| A Dictionary Time Capsule | 9 |
| Don't Be Afraid of Democracy | 15 |
| The Liberal Reformers Speak Out | 23 |
| The Great Debate on Political Reform and Democracy | 28 |
| Bankruptcy Comes to China | 38 |
| Socialist China's Big Board | 44 |
| Building Friendship Through Golf and Guns | 55 |
| The Limo-ization of Beijing | 64 |
Part 2 | Bodybuilding and Bikinis | |
| A Vacuum | 71 |
| Bodybuilding and Bikinis | 73 |
| Cosmetic Surgery | 80 |
| Fashion As Emblem | 85 |
| Letting a Hundred Periodicals Bloom | 89 |
| Mao, Freud, and Iacocca | 93 |
| Socialism Is Good | 101 |
Part 3 | A Second Kind of Loyalty | |
| Three Critics and the Party | 119 |
| Fang Lizhi: China's Andrei Sakharov | 121 |
| Liu Binyan: A Second Kind of Loyalty | 140 |
| Wang Ruowang: Political Iconoclast | 162 |
| Communist Traditionalism | 177 |
| A Unity of Opposites | 183 |
| Wondering About the Thaw | 187 |
Part 4 | The Students March | |
| Liang Qichao: China's First Democrat | 193 |
| The Democracy Wall Movement | 201 |
| The Student Demonstrations Begin | 211 |
| Fang Lizhi Addresses the Students of Shanghai | 218 |
| The Students March on Shanghai | 223 |
| The Students March on Beijing | 231 |
| The Aftermath | 241 |
Part 5 | Emulate Lei Feng | |
| The New Political Climate | 247 |
| The Party Reacts | 250 |
| Fang Lizhi Is Purged | 258 |
| Wang Ruowang Is Expelled from the Party | 266 |
| Hu Yaobang Is Dismissed from Office | 269 |
| The Campaign Against Wholesale Westernization | 276 |
| The Dismissal of Liu Binyan | 282 |
| Emulate Lei Feng | 286 |
| Chinese Students Abroad Write a Letter Home | 295 |
| Fang Lizhi's Speeches Are "Published" | 302 |
| An Intellectual's View of the Party | 306 |
| The Crackdown on Publishing | 314 |
| Limiting the Hard-line Counter-attack | 324 |
Part 6 | Disco Dreams | |
| The Economic Effects of the Crackdown | 337 |
| Advertising Comes to the Great Hall of the People | 340 |
| Disco Dreams | 349 |
| Fang, Wang, and Liu Reappear | 357 |
| The Circle Comes Around | 364 |
| Mao and Kentucky Fried Chicken | 373 |
| Notes on Translations and Sources | 383 |