Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS VII
3. ILLUSTRATIONS IX
4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS XI
5. PART I. Histories and Hierarchies
6. Chapter I. Introduction: Knowing and Remembering 3
7. Chapter 2. Classifying and Counting 34
8. PART II. Pleasures
9. Chapter 3. Rules of the House 69
10. Chapter 4. Affairs of the Heart 103
11. Chapter 5. Tricks of the Trade 127
12. Chapter 6. Careers 142
13. PART III. Dangers
14. Chapter 7. Trafficking 181
15. Chapter 8. Law and Disorder 203
16. Chapter 9. Disease 226
17. PART IV. Interventions
18. Chapter 10. Reformers 245
19. Chapter 11. Regulators 271
20. Chapter 12. Revolutionaries 304
21. PART V. Contemporary Conversations
22. Chapter 13. Naming 327
23. Chapter 14. Explaining 358
24. Chapter 15. History, Memory, and Nostalgia 393
25. APPENDIX A. Tables 399
26. APPENDIX B. Poems 405
27. NOTES 409
28. GLOSSARY OF CHINESE CHARACTERS 539
29. BIBLIOGRAPHY 549
30. INDEX 577