1. Toward a Discourse Theory of Politics -- I. Fictive Truths and Logical Inferences. 2. Four Struggles. 3. Three Stories. 4. One Line -- II. Yanan as a Mobilization Space. 5. The Surviving Yananites. 6. The Terrain on the Ground. 7. Yanan as a Revolutionary Simulacrum -- III. The Power of Symbolic Capital. 8. Exegetical Bonding and the Phenomenology of Confession. 9. Foucault's Paradox and the Politics of Contending Discourses -- Appendix: Cadre Schools in the Shaan-Gan-Ning Border Region, 1935-1945.