Introduction : the unthinkable revolution
Enemies from the past : bureaucracy, class, and Mao's "continuous revolution"
From the good blood to the right to rebel : politics of class and citizenship in the Beijing Red Guard movement
Revolutionary alchemy : "economism" and the making of Shanghai's "January revolution"
Revolution is dead, long live the revolution : popular radicalization of the cultural revolution in Hunan
Coping with crisis in the wake of the cultural revolution : the historical origins of Chinese postsocialism
Epilogue : from revolution to reform : rethinking the cultural revolution in the present.