Introduction / Jeremy Brown and Matthew D. Johnson
Part I. Crimes, labels, and punishment
How a "bad element" was made : the discovery, accusation, and punishment of Zang Qiren / Yang Kuisong
Moving targets : changing class labels in rural Hebei and Henan, 1960-1979 / Jeremy Brown
An overt conspiracy : creating rightists in rural Henan, 1957-1958 / Cao Shuji
Revising political verdicts in post-Mao China : the case of Beijing Fengtai District / Daniel Leese
Part II. Mobilization
Liberation from the loom? : rural women, textile work, and revolution in North China / Jacob Eyferth
Youth and the "great revolutionary movement" of scientific experiment in 1960s-1970s rural China / Sigrid Schmalzer
Adrift in Tianjin, 1976 : a diary of natural disaster, everyday urban life, and exile to the countryside / Sha Qingqing and Jeremy Brown
Part III. Culture and communication
Beneath the propaganda state : official and unofficial cultural landscapes in Shanghai, 1949-1965 / Matthew D. Johnson
China's "great proletarian information revolution" of 1966-1967 / Michael Schoenhals
The dilemma of implementation : the state and religion in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1990 / Xiaoxuan Wang
Part IV. Discontent
Radical agricultural collectivization and ethnic rebellion : the communist encounter with a "new emperor" in Guizhou's Mashan region, 1956 / Wang Haiguang
From "opposing Han chauvinism" to "opposing local nationalism" : causes and effects of the 1957-1958 movement against local nationalism in Xinjiang / Zhe Wu
Redemptive sects and the communist state, 1949 to the 1980s / S.A. Smith
Epilogue: Mao's China : putting politics in perspective / Vivienne Shue.