| Foreword | |
| Preface | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| A Note on Pronunciation | |
| Abbreviations | |
| Introduction | 3 |
| Ch. 1 | Wild Lily, 1942 | 69 |
| Wild Lily | 69 |
| Politicians, Artists | 75 |
| Thoughts on March 8 (Women's Day) | 78 |
| It Is Still the Age of the Zawen | 82 |
| Ch. 2 | The Hundred Flowers, 1957 | 85 |
| Forum of Democratic Parties and Groups on the Rectification Movement | 85 |
| Symposium of Scientists | 88 |
| What Is the Fundamental Cause of the Trade Union Crisis? | 89 |
| Distressing Contradiction | 92 |
| Rebellious Journalists | 93 |
| Excerpts from a Speech Made at a Debate Held at People's University on May 30, 1957 | 94 |
| On the New Development of "Class" | 98 |
| Heaven, Water, Heart: Democracy? Party Rule? | 99 |
| I Accuse, I Protest | 100 |
| Seven Theses on Socialism and Democracy | 101 |
| Ch. 3 | Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 | 104 |
| What Have Song Shuo, Lu Ping, and Peng Peiyun Done in the Cultural Revolution? | 104 |
| Red Guard Statements, 1966-1967 | 108 |
| "Revolutionary" Power-holders | 120 |
| Whither China? | 124 |
| On Socialist Democracy and the Legal System | 134 |
| On the "Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution" | 145 |
| Ch. 4 | China Spring, 1979-1981 | 157 |
| Mao Zedong and the Cultural Revolution | 157 |
| China: A History That Must Be Told | 175 |
| Democracy or a New Dictatorship? | 180 |
| Interview with Xu Wenli | 185 |
| A Reform Program for the Eighties | 189 |
| A Statement of Clarification | 194 |
| Democracy and Legality Are Safeguards of Stability and Unity | 196 |
| A Guangdong Youth Forum on Wall Posters | 199 |
| The Wind Rises from among the Duckweed: Elections at Beijing University | 202 |
| Election Scandal in a Rural Commune | 210 |
| The Election Movement Is in the Ascendant | 213 |
| The Student Movement in Hunan | 217 |
| Youth Disturbances in China's Far West | 221 |
| Advertisement: Modern Clothes | 227 |
| The Reawakening of the Chinese Working Class | 228 |
| In Memory of Wang Shenyou, Pioneer of the Democratic Movement, Teacher, Comrade | 229 |
| Interview with Yang Jing | 234 |
| Eyewitness Account of the Arrest of Liu Qing | 239 |
| Liu Qing Is Innocent! | 244 |
| Sad Memories and Prospects: My Appeal to the Tribunal of the People | 247 |
| Women Are Human Beings Too | 257 |
| China and Solidarnosc | 259 |
| Ch. 5 | Prairie Fire, 1989 | 264 |
| Proposal to Resign from the Party and Prepare an "Association to Promote China's Democracy Movement" | 264 |
| Letter of Petition | 266 |
| Speech in Tian'anmen Square | 266 |
| A Worker's Letter to the Students | 269 |
| A Choice Made on the Basis of Conscience and Party Spirit: An Open Letter to All Party Members | 270 |
| Hoist High the Flag of Reason | 271 |
| Where I Stand | 274 |
| The Socialist Multiparty System and China | 275 |
| A Letter to the People | 278 |
| Preparatory Program of the Autonomous Federation of Workers of the Capital | 279 |
| Workers' Declaration | 280 |
| Open Letter to the Students from an Army Veteran | 281 |
| Smart Thieves' Voice | 282 |
| Provisional Statutes of the Autonomous Federation of Workers of the Capital | 283 |
| Statement | 284 |
| Statement | 285 |
| The Massacre in Tian'anmen Square | 286 |
| Account of the Beijing Massacre | 291 |
| The Square | 295 |
| Open Letter to the Chinese Communist Party | 296 |
| Ch. 6 | The Intellectuals' Critique | 299 |
| Proposals for Reform of the Political Structure, 1986 | 299 |
| The Theory of Two Cultural Factors | 305 |
| Problems of Modernization | 307 |
| In Defense of Humanism | 312 |
| On Political Reform | 317 |
| The Bureaucratic Paradise | 327 |
| Appendix: Sources of the Texts | 333 |
| Index | 343 |
