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Contents	Page
Maps	p. viii
Chapter 1 - Through the Front Gate	p. 1
Chapter 2 - Becoming Teacher Plumblossom	p. 9
Chapter 3 - Mocky & Me	p. 20
Chapter 4 - "Say Farewell to Dangerous Housing"	p. 35
Chapter 5 - Wintertime	p. 60
Chapter 6 - A Brief History of [characters not reproducible] Part One: Traces of Pre-Beijing	p. 76
Chapter 7 - The Evening News	p. 82
Chapter 8 - High Times in Happiness City	p. 88
Chapter 9 - Preserving a Sense of Place	p. 108
Chapter 10 - Springtime	p. 131
Chapter 11 - A Brief History of [characters not reproducible] Part Two: The Rise and Fall of Imperial Beijing	p. 143
Chapter 12 - The Unslumming Slum	p. 158
Chapter 13 - Saving the Old Street	p. 174
Chapter 14 - A Summer of Recycling	p. 188
Chapter 15 - Past Tense vs. Future Tense	p. 203
Chapter 16 - A Brief History of [characters not reproducible] Part Three: The Modernization of Republican Beijing	p. 214
Chapter 17 - Miss Zhu Remembers the Trees	p. 231
Chapter 18 - "If Someone Is Sick and You Do Not Aid Him, It Is Your Fault, Not His"	p. 247
Chapter 19 - The Widow's Story	p. 261
Chapter 20 - A Brief History of [characters not reproducible] Part Four: The Industrialization of Maoist Beijing	p. 275
Chapter 21 - Echo Wall	p. 294
Acknowledgments	p. 311
Appendix - Gazetteer	p. 315
Notes	p. 319
Bibliography	p. 331

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