A continuing record of the toys, homemade playthings, street games and schoolyard activities experienced by people born in China in the 1960s, understood in the material and social conditions of their childhood.
- How Did a Bamboo Rotor Fly from Between Two Palms?
- How Did a Button Hum Between Two Hands?
- How Did an Old Handkerchief Carry a Pebble Slowly Down?
- How Did a Square of Paper Catch the Wind?
- How Did a Beanbag Sewn from Scrap Cloth Gather a Crowd?
- A Schoolyard Game Built Around One Elastic Loop
- How Did Five Stones Move Through One Hand?
- The Feather Shuttlecock — A Coin and a Few Feathers
- Hopscotch: How a Few Lines on the Ground Became a Game
- How Did a Bamboo Dragonfly Fly from Two Palms?
- How Did a Bamboo Pole Become a Horse in the Courtyard?
- How Did a Bamboo Spinner Fly from Two Palms?
- How Did a Bamboo Tube Become a Summer Water Squirter?
- How Did a Cardboard Box and Rubber Bands Become a ‘Guitar’?
- Why Did a Cardboard Kaleidoscope Never Seem to Run Out of Patterns?
- How Did a Clay Bowl Turn a Hole into the Stakes?
- How Did a Clay Whistle Carry the Market into a Child’s Pocket?
- How Did a Desk Lamp Turn Hands into Animals on the Wall?
- How Did a Flat Stone Skip Across the Water?
- How Did a Folded Paper Frog Jump from a Fingertip?
- How Did a Forked Branch Become a Homemade Slingshot?
- How Did a Handful of Sticks Become a Game of Moving Nothing Else?
- How Did a Line of Children Turn Behind the Mother Hen?
- How Did One Long Rope Bring a Group into the Same Rhythm?
- How Did a Lump of Clay Make a Sharp Pop?
- How Did a Paper Strip Become a Pretend Wristwatch?
- How Did a Sheet of Exercise Paper Make a Sharp Pop?
- How Did a Sheet of Exercise Paper Make a Sharp Snap?
- How Did a Wall Become a Winter Crowding Game?
- How Did a Willow Twig Become a Spring Whistle?
- How Did a Wind-Up Tin Frog Hop Across the Floor?
- How Did Two Iron Runners Turn a Wooden Stool into an Ice Sled?
- How Did a Wooden Thread Spool Crawl Across a Table?
- How Did Half an Eggshell Become a Roly-Poly Toy?
- How Did an Empty Cigarette Packet Become a Slapping Card?
- How an Empty Tin Turned Hide-and-Seek into a Rescue Game
- How Did an Exercise-Book Page Become a Paper Plane?
- How Did Bamboo Strips and Newspaper Become a Kite?
- How Did Bottle Caps Become a Rattling Toy?
- How Did Empty Matchboxes Become a Tiny Drawer Cabinet?
- How Did Scrap Paper Become a Game of Slapping Triangles?
- How Did Four Knucklebones Become a Catching Game?
- How Did Four Old Bearings Become a Wooden Cart?
- How Did Four Paper Slips Create a Hidden-Role Game?
- How Did Ice-Lolly Sticks Become a Tiny House?
- How Did Interlocked Legs Make a Moving ‘Flower Basket’?
- How Did Leapfrog Turn a Schoolyard into a Vaulting Course?
- How Did an Old Newspaper Become a Paper Hat?
- How Did an Old Pack of Cards Become a Wobbling House?
- How Did One Leg Support a Whole Hopping Contest?
- How Did One Cotton Loop Keep Changing Between Two Pairs of Hands?
- How Did Paper Clothes Dress a Cardboard Doll?
- How Did a Few Pebbles Become a Blocking Game on the Ground?
- How Seven Paper Pieces Became a Whole World
- How Did Soap Scraps and a Hollow Straw Make Bubbles?
- How Did Pieces of Sorghum Stalk Become Pretend Glasses?
- How Did a Few Stones Become a Tiger-and-Sheep Game?
- How Did One Loop of String Keep Changing Between Two Pairs of Hands?
- How Did Two Leaf Stems Become a Pulling Contest?
- How Did Two Tin Cans Become Low Stilts?
- How Did a Used Sheet of Paper Become a Popping Toy?
- How Did Waste Paper Become Football on a School Desk?
- How Did Wet Earth Become a Tiny Kitchen?
- Paper Airplanes and Childhood Creation
- How Did Paper Boats Become a Race After the Rain?
- A Paper Fortune Teller Between Four Fingers
- Paper Pinwheels from Old Calendar Paper: A Toy Brought to Life by Wind
- Playing Glass Marbles — A Pocket-Sized Childhood Competition
- Rolling the Iron Hoop — A Ring and a Hook Were Enough for an Afternoon
- Winning with a Slap: Picture Cards on the Ground
- How Did Two Short Sticks Make a Diabolo Hum?
- How Was a Pointed Stick Struck into the Air?
- A Loop of String Between Two Pairs of Hands
- How Did Two Tin Cans Carry a Voice Across the Yard?
- Why Was a Box of Plastic Bricks Counted Again and Again?
- How Did a Whip Keep a Wooden Top Spinning?
- Why Was a Small Box of Plasticine Used Again and Again?
- Why Was a Sweet Wrapper Worth Pressing Inside a Book?