China Briefing

Introduction; Historical Echoes and Chinese Politics: Can China Leave the Twentieth Century Behind?; The Chinese Economy: Fifty Years into the Transformation; Power, Patronage, and Protest in Rural China; The Shape of Society: The Changing Demography of Development; Promises and Pitfalls of Reform: New Thinking in Post-Deng China; The Politics of Consumerism in Chinese Society; Gender and Nationalism in China at the Turn of the Millennium; Dangerous Liaisons: China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the United States at the Turn of the Century; The More Things Change, the More They Remain the Same: The World, the United States, and the People's Republic of China, 1949-1999; Chronology 1997-1999; Historical Chronology of the Twentieth Century: 1895-1996