Introduction / Perry Link, Richard Madsen, Paul G. Pickowicz -- Hard-copied entertainment fiction from the Cultural Revolution/ Perry Link -- Popular cinema and political thought in post-Mao China: reflections on official pronouncements, film and the film audience / Paul G. Pickowicz -- How come you aren't divorced yet? / Zhang Xinxin 張辛欣 -- Love and marriage in North China peasant operas / R. David Arkush -- My mother's house / Deborah Davis -- The Catholic Church in China: cultural contradictions, institutional survival and religious renewal / Richard Madsen -- Recycling rituals: politics and popular culture in contemporary rural China / Helen F. Siu -- Pride and prejudice: Subei people in contemporary Shanghai / Emily Honig -- The perstistance of propriety in the 1980's / Ellen Johnston Laing -- Guerrilla interviewing among the getihu / Thomas B. Gold -- Value change among post-Mao youth: the evidence from survey data / Stanley Rosen.