Introduction: early warnings
Part 1. Wall. Protests: solidarity from Hong Kong to Tiananmen
Over the wall: China's first email and the rise of the online censor
Nailing the jello: Chinese democracy and the Great Firewall
Enemy at the gates: how fear of Falun Gong boosted the Firewall
Searching for an opening: Google, Yahoo and Silicon Valley's moral failing in China
Part 2. Shield. Along came a spider: Lu Wei reins in the Chinese internet
Peak traffic: Getting the Dalai Lama online
Filtered: The firewall catches up with Da Cankao
Jumping the wall: FreeGate, UltraSurf, and Falun Gong's fight against the censors
Called to account: Silicon Valley's reckoning on Capitol Hill
Part 3. Sword. Uyghurs online: Ilham Tohti and the birth of the Uyghur internet
Shutdown: how to take 20 million people offline
Ghosts in the machine: Chinese hackers expand the Firewall's reach
NoGuGe: The ignominious end of Google China
The social network: Weibo and the last free-speech platform
Gorillas in the mist: Exposing China's hackers to the world
Part 4. War. Caught: The death of the Uyghur internet
Key opinion leader: How Chinese trolls go after dissidents overseas
Root and stem: The internet is more vulnerable than you think
The censor at the UN: China's undermining of global internet freedoms
Sovereignty: When Xi Jinping came for the internet
Friends in Moscow: The Great Firewall goes west
Plane crash: China helps Russia bring Telegram to heel
One app to rule them all: How WeChat opened up new frontiers of surveillance and censorship
Buttocks: Uganda's internet blackouts follow Beijing's lead
Epilogue: Silicon Valley won't save you.