Introduction
Part Ⅰ Records of Epochal Vanguard
Chapter 1 Dirt (1992): The Bildungsroman of Non-Mainstream Youth of the 1980s
Chapter 2 In the Heat of the Sun (1994): Remembrance of the "Era of Enlightenment"
Part Ⅱ Transcriptions of Youthful Passion
Chapter 3 Weekend Lover (1995): Fable of Indulgence and Self-Annihilation
Chapter 4 The Making of Steel (1997): Why Steel Could Not Be Successfully Made
Part Ⅲ Middle Class Culture and Its Distinction
Chapter 5 A Room for Two People (2008): China's Middle Class and Its Cultural
Life
Chapter 6 Green Tea (2003): Taste of the "Middle Class" and Its Historical Amnesia
Part Ⅳ Postmodern Panorama and Simulacrum
Chapter 7 The World (2004): Post-Modern Paradise or Post-Revolutionary Fantasy?
Chapter 8 The Contract (2006): The Chinese Version of"Pretty Woman".
Part Ⅴ HistoricalIntrospection and Projection 131
Chapter 9 24 City (2008): Orchestrating Workers' Memories and National History.
Chapter 10 Eleven Flowers (2012): Conservative Projection in the Memory of a Teenager
Conclusion
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