B. Michael Frolic is Professor of Political Science, York University, Toronto.

Often touching and sometimes funny, rich in anecdotes... it's a book about coping and surviving, about wangling and finagling and getting on in the revolution... these painstakingly recorded narratives are the most telling bits of self-expression from Mao's China that we have had.

• 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 A moy 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

B. Michael Frolic is Professor of Political Science, York University, Toronto.

Often touching and sometimes funny, rich in anecdotes... it's a book about coping and surviving, about wangling and finagling and getting on in the revolution... these painstakingly recorded narratives are the most telling bits of self-expression from Mao's China that we have had.

• 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 A moy 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