Author's note on the 2nd edition
Author's note on the 1st edition
A family both red and black
Docile country boy
Budding learner, avocational food shopper
An unwasted youth
Misbehaving factory worker
Cavalier college student
Self-taught America hand
Semiwild instructor
Visiting scholar-cum-handyman
Recovering student, "single" father
Comp TA, lonely divorcé
A cross-cultural marriage, an interdisciplinary dissertation
Halfhearted academic
The tenure farce
Coda
Appendix 1: A published record of grandpa
Appendix 2: Grandpa's autobiography
Appendix 3: Grandpa's demobilization certificate
Appendix 4: A published account of Aunt's activities and death
Appendix 5: Published records of paternal grandpa (Ding)
Appendix 6: The Three-Character Classic as remembered by grandpa Wang, p.1
Appendix 7: Grandpa's annotations of the Illustrated Four-Character Classic for Females, p. 1
Appendix 8: Grandpa's annotations of the Illustrated Improved Classic for Girls, p.1
Appendix 9: Grandpa Liao's poems
Appendix 10: Teacher Liang's evaluation of and advice for me
Appendix 11: Haiyan and I getting married in my office building
Appendix 12: N. T. Wang's letter to the P & T Committee
Appendix 13: My former teacher mentor's letter to the P & T Committee
Appendix 14: My response to the Dean's annual evaluation of me