Through the front gate -- Becoming teacher plumblossom -- Mocky & me -- "Say farewell to dangerous housing" -- Wintertime -- A brief history of part one : traces of pre-Beijing -- The evening news -- High times in happiness city -- Preserving a sense of place -- Springtime -- A brief history of part two : the rise and fall of Imperial Beijing -- The unslumming slum -- Saving the old street -- A summer of recycling -- Past tense vs. future tense -- A brief history of part three : the modernization of Republican Beijing -- Miss Zhu remembers the trees -- "If someone is sick and you do not aid him, it is your fault, not his" -- The widow's story -- A brief history of part four : the industrialization of Maoist Beijing -- Echo wall -- Epilogue. New Beijing, new olympics.