Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Early Trippers
Dirty Underwear, Paul G. Pickowicz (1971)
China Was Not Utopia, Anita Chan (1971)
Broom? Silk? Perry Link (1973)
Where Are the Child Psychologists? Martin King Whyte (1973)
Third-World Students in China, Donald Clarke (1977)
Part II: Openings
Young Journalists, Stephen R. MacKinnon (1978-1981)
The Operation of Power, Donald Clarke (1978)
The Rehabilitation of Sociology, Martin King Whyte (1979)
A Night with the Post Office Guys, James M. Hargett (1979)
Stamp Connections, Wendy Larson (1979)
Buying Socks, Perry Link (1979)
A Single Room, Vera Schwarcz (1979)
Death of a Tourist, Morris Rossabi (1979)
Expats, Stephen R. MacKinnon (1979-1981)
Part III: Stop Overexciting the Masses!
No Signs, No Maps, Charlotte Furth (1981)
Stop Overexciting the Masses! Thomas D. Gorman (1980)
Bureaucracy and Nosiness, Donald Clarke (1980)
The Stupidest Thing I Did in China, Suzanne Cahill (1980)
Representative of the Bourgeoisie, Charlotte Furth (1981)
Famous American Spy, Suzanne Cahill (1981)
Encountering Shandong, Joseph W. Esherick (1980)
High in Tibet, Melinda Liu (1980)
Part IV: Where Are We Going?
My Father's Hometown, Mayfair Yang (1982)
High-Rise Counterculture, Paul G. Pickowicz (1982)
Second Uncle and His Wife, Mayfair Yang (1982)
Manuscript, Stanley Rosen (1982)
The Local Officials: Whiffs of the Qing Dynasty, Mayfair Yang (1982)
A Fitting Chair, Jennifer Anderson (1983)
Thank You Very Much, Dru C. Gladney (1984)
Where Are We Going? Thomas D. Gorman (1984)
Old Lady, Stanley Rosen (1985)
Part V: Reading Tea Leaves
Books on Secondary Extraction, Geoffrey Ziebart (1985)
Making Assumptions, Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom (1986)
Internal Document, Stanley Rosen (1986)
Brotherhood, Geoffrey Ziebart (1987)
Mickey Mouse at Peking U, David Moser (1988)
Reading Tea Leaves, Richard P. Madsen (1988-1989)
Eating Bitterness, Vera Schwarcz (1989)
From Clayderman to Cui Jian, James A. Cook (1991)
Catholic Church in Tianjin, Richard P. Madsen (1992)
Part VI: Welcome to Our Foreign Friends
Welcome to Our Foreign Friends, David Moser (1994)
Cradle of the Revolution, Andrew D. Morris (1996)
A Night at the Movenpick, Perry Link (1996)
Opium War, Andrew D. Morris (1996)
Special Powers, Jeremy Brown (1997)
Relationships, Not Names, David Moser (1998)
Estrangement, Nick Admussen (1999)
Part VII: Today's Everyday
Living in the White House, Marketus D. Presswood (2000)
The Loudness of the Lambs, Dru C. Gladney (2003-2004)
Men's World, Jeremy Brown (2004)
Malleable Rules, Philip F. Williams (2004)
Tashkurgan, Justin M. Jacobs (2007)
Mainlander, Jeremy A. Murray (2008)
Avoiding Long Lines, Paul G. Pickowicz (2010)
Hainan Fishing Captain, Jeremy A. Murray (2012)
Black Is Beautiful! Marketus D. Presswood (2013)
Darth Vader and the Triceratops, Maggie Greene (2014)
A Phone Call from the Party Secretary, Melinda Liu (2016)
Afterword, Minxin Pei
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