The early years of the People's Republic of China : an introduction / Jeremy Brown and Paul G. Pickowicz
pt. I : Urban takeover
"Clean-up" : the new order in Shanghai / Frederic Wakeman, Jr.
Masters of the country? Shanghai workers in the early People's Republic / Elizabeth J. Perry
New democracy and the demise of private charity in Shanghai / Nara Dillon
pt. II : Occupying the periphery
From resisting communists to resisting America : civil war and Korean war in southwest China, 1950-51 / Jeremy Brown
The Chinese communist "liberation" of Tibet, 1949-51 / Chen Jian
Big brother is watching : local Sino-Soviet relations and the building of new Dalian, 1945-55 / Christian Hess
The call of the oases : the "peaceful liberation" of Xinjiang, 1949-53 / James Z. Gao
pt. III : The culture of accommodation
The crocodile bird : Xiangsheng in the early 1950s / Perry Link
"The very first lesson" : teaching about human evolution in early 1950s China / Sigrid Schmalzer
Acting like revolutionaries : Shi Hui, the Wenhua studio, and private-sector filmmaking, 1949-52 / Paul G. Pickowicz
Creating "New China's first new-style regular university," 1949-50 / Douglas A. Stiffler
pt. IV : Family strategies
The Ye family in New China / Joseph W. Esherick
Birthing stories : rural midwives in 1950s China / Gail Hershatter
Capitalists choosing communist China : the Liu family of Shanghai, 1948-56 / Sherman Cochran.