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Introduction Part ¢ñ 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 ¢ò 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 ¢ó 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 ¢ô 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 ¢õ 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 References