Introduction: Through the Open Door

1. Eating Bitterness

2. Local Despots and Peasant Rebels

3. Getting Rich is Glorious

4. Behind the Walls

5. Inside the Zones

6. The Iron Rice Bowl

7. The Pig that Fears to Become Fat

8. The God of Wealth

9. Guttering Candles

10. Barefoot Doctors and Witch-doctors

11. The Stinking Ninth

12. Secret Empire

13. Tremble and Obey

14. The Rule of Law

15. Between Heaven and Earth

Epilogue: Examining the Oracle Bones.