Foreward: Delving into the challenges confronting China / Lampton, David M. - Introduction: The People's Republic of China Today / Zhu, Zhiqun - Part I: Political changes and democratization - Chapter one China's leadership succession and change / Chen, Weixing - Chapter two A tragic miscarriage: how china's quest for political reform is indercut by the China model / Liu, Yawei - Chapter three Concluding the complex learning process: the chinese elites' acceptance of outward-oriented development / Reardon, Lawrence C. - Chapter four Political accountability in governance: an informative appraisal of China's political change / Zhu, Yuchao - Chapter five Liberalism and its impact on China's reform / Li, He
Part II: Economic and social changes - Chapter six
China's demographic dividends: past gains and future pains / Lu, Ding - Chapter seven Smashing the iron rice bowls: severing ties between the Chinese state and socialist workers / Zeng, Jin - Chapter eight Developing a PAYGO social security system in China: retrospect and prospect / Ye, Lin - Chapter nine An unprecedented challenge: can the internet be successfully controlled? / Hong, Junhao - Chapter ten Spiritual beliefs and ethnic relations in China: a cross-cultural and social psychological perspective / Lee, Yueh-Ting and Li, Hong - Chapter eleven Tourism modernization, and nation-building: the case of the Yangzi Delta / Chien, Cecilia L.F.
Part III: Challenges in foreign, security, and military policies - Chapter twelve
China's public diplomacy in a new era / Han, Zhaoying - Chapter thirteen Foreign publicity with weak political credibility: a case study of Beijing's foreign publicity over the Tibet riots / Ding, Sheng - Chapter fourteen DtChina's search for energy and climate security in an interdpendent world / Garrison, Jean - Chapter fifteen The coming of a prosperous China with strong military power / Lai, David - Chapter sixteen Extended horizon: China's blue-water navy ambition and its implications / Xin, Qiang - Chapter seventeen Alternative perspectives on US-China relations / Hyer, Eric - Conclusion Whither China in the 21st century Zhu, Zhiqun.
