One: The summer of democracy
Two: An umbrella occupation: a new generation rebels
Three: And then there were none
Four: Property and poverty
Five: Opium, free trade, and a "barren rock"
Six: A "dying city" rises from the ruins
Seven: "Horses will still run, stocks will still sizzle, dancers will still dance"
Eight: Massacre in Tiananmen: "Today's China is tomorrow's Hong Kong"
Nine: "I have to live in the real world"
Ten: The last governor: "A thousand-year sinner"
Eleven: China opens for business
Twelve: "The great Chinese takeaway"
Thirteen: "The first postmodern city to die"
Fifteen: Punishing a media maverick
Seventeen: "History will absolve me"
Epilogue: A newspaper is murdered, a city mourns