Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The writing and rewriting of an exemplary shouchaoben: Zhang Yang's The Second Handshake during the Cultural Revolution.- Chapter 3: Texts on travel: stability across variation and secondary authorship in espionage shouchaoben fiction.- Chapter 4: Shouchaoben as literary avant-garde: Open Love Letters and Waves.- Chapter 5: Ways of reading: Cultural Revolution reading acts.- Chapter 6: World literature and intertextuality: reading acts in shouchaoben fiction.- Chapter 7: From underground into the mainstream: shouchaoben fiction on the commercial book market.- Chapter 8: Conclusion: Shouchaoben fiction as texts in motion.