Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction: Ba Jin’s Fiction and Twentieth-Century Chinese History 1
6. 1. Mingfeng: The Life of a Chinese Slave Girl 17
7. 2. The Patriarch: Chengdu’s Gentry 48
8. 3. Juexin’s City: The Chengdu Economy 82
9. 4. Sedan-Chair Bearers, Beggars, Actors, and Prostitutes: The Worlds of the Urban Poor 111
10. 5. Students, Soldiers, and Warlords: Protest and Warfare in the City 131
11. 6. Qin: Chengdu and the “New Woman” 155
12. 7. Juehui: Revolution, Reform, and Development in Chengdu 184
13. Epilogue: Family and City in China’s Twentieth-Century Revolutions 215
14. Appendix 1: Timeline of Chengdu’s History and Ba Jin’s Life 221
15. Appendix 2: List of Turbulent Stream Characters, with Pinyin and Wade-Giles Romanizations 225
16. Notes 227
17. Glossary 251
18. Works Cited 253
19. Index 269