From the Book - First Touchstone edition.
"Three-Inch Golden Lilies" concubine to a warlord general (1909-1933)
"Even Plain Cold Water Is Sweet" my grandmother marries a Manchu doctor (1933-1938)
"They All Say What a Happy Place Manchukuo Is" life under the Japanese (1938-1945)
"Slaves Who Have No Country of Your Own" ruled by different masters (1945-1947)
"Daughter for Sale for 10 Kilos of Rice" in battle for a new China (1947-1948)
"Talking about Love" a revolutionary marriage (1948-1949)
"Going Through the Five Mountain Passes" my mother's long march (1949-1950)
"Returning Home Robed in Embroidered Silk" to family and bandits (1949-1951)
"When a Man Gets Power, Even His Chickens and Dogs Rise to Heaven" living with an incorruptible man (1951-1953)
"Suffering Will Make you a Better Communist" my mother falls under suspicion (1953-1956)
"After the Anti-Rightist Campaign No One Opens Their Mouth" China silenced (1956-1958)
"Capable Women Can Make a Meal without Food" famine (1958-1962)
"Thousand-Gold Little Precious" in a privileged cocoon (1958-1965)
"Father Is Close, Mother Is Close, but Neither Is as Close as Chairman Mao" the Cult of Mao (1964-1965)
"Destroy First, and Construction Will Look After Itself" the cultural revolution begins (1965-1966)
"Soar to Heaven, and Pierce the Earth" Mao's red guards (June-August 1966)
"Do You Want Our Children to Become Blacks?" my parents' dilemma (August-October 1966)
"More Than Gigantic Wonderful News" pilgrimage to Peking (October-December 1966)
"Where There is a Will to Condemn, There is Evidence" my parents tormented (December 1966-1967)
I Will Not Sell My Soul" my father arrested (1967-1968)
"Giving Charcoal in Snow" my siblings and my friends (1967-1968)
"Thought Reform through Labor" to the edge of the Himalayas (January-June 1969)
"The More Books You Read, the More Stupid You Become" I work as a peasant and a barefoot doctor (June 1969-1971)
"Please Accept My Apologies That Come a Lifetime Too Late" my parents in camps (1969-1972)
"The Fragrance of Sweet Wind" a new life with the electricians' manual and six crises (1972-1973)
"Sniffing after Foreigners' Farts and Calling Them Sweet" learning English in Mao's wake (1972-1974)
If This Is Paradise, What Then Is Hell?" the death of my father (1974-1976)
Fighting to take wing (1976-1978)
