Robert Foyle Hunwick is a journalist who lives and works in China. He reports regularly for the Daily Telegraph and his journalism has been published in Vice, Slate, The Atlantic and Esquire. He also runs the influential blog Beijing Cream and is Senior Editor at the English-language magazine That’s Beijing. Known as the reporter who writes about the China the Party doesn’t want you to see, he has authored several talked-about articles on swinging, drug-use and corruption.

• Preface: The Party - Red Sin Rising1. Thirty Years Without Law (1949-1983)2. 1983: A Most Violent Year3. House of Cadres: How Corruption Ate Capitalism4. In the KTV: Sex and the 'Hottie Economy'5. Scary Monsters, Super Creeps: Serial Killers, Kidnappers, and Spree Murderers6. Death in the Country: Crime and the Rural DivideEpilogue: The State of SurveillanceBibliographyIndex

Beneath the party platitudes and state media hosannas on China’s phenomenal development over the past few decades, there is another story. One which Robert Hunwick uncovers with tireless research and a storyteller’s eye for a gripping narrative.