Table of Contents:
  • Childhood of Genghua in a capitalist family
  • Life little Genghua remembered under Japanese occupation
  • How Chinese people keep their festivals before 1949
  • Life of Wu family before Communist Party takes over Shanghai
  • The first two political movements have no effect on Wu family
  • How capitalists get first financial blow & how Genghua fares in middle school
  • Genghua's friend returns to Germany & capitalists get second financial blow
  • Anti-rightist movement has little effect on Wu family
  • The great leap-forward & steel-making movement
  • Genghua learns English from some old scholars & makes new friends
  • Tours in West-Suburb Park & to Suzhou City
  • Genghua makes more friends & Mrs. Wu's afraid to bribe the policeman
  • Capitalists get final financial blow in Cultural Revolution
  • Rebels seize power of local governments & armed fights begin the nation over
  • How Wu family fares in later period of Cultural Revolution
  • Wu family seeks help for permits to Hong Kong & Lin Biao dies
  • Genghua starts to translate classics & Cultural Revolution ends
  • Genghua gets jobs & shows his talent in English teaching
  • Genghua's friend Bai helps to get permits for his mother and brother to go to Hong Kong
  • Genghua gets married
  • How Genghua and his wife live and work
  • Genghua publishes his first book & has a daughter
  • Genghua and his family go to the United States.