China has been experiencing a dynamic process of economic reform and social
modernisation for more than 25 years now. For those who follow the country's transformation …

Deng Xiaoping, generally regarded as the most powerful person among curr leaders of the
People's Republic of China (PRC), projected three major tasks China in the 1980s: to …

FOR A BRIEF TIME toward the end of 1978 and the beginning of 1979, China's rulers
encouraged democratic agitation by ordinary people against the abuses of dictatorship …

During the last 30 years, China has been experiencing rapid economic and social
transformations. The reform introduced in 1978 was based on the rejection of Mao Zedong's …

China's approach toward post-Stalinist reform contrasts markedly with that of most other
former centrally planned economies. Eastern Europe and Russia have tried to move rapidly …

by Jack A. Goldstone ill China after the death of Deng Xiaoping avoid the fate of the Soviet
Union? Many analysts presume that China's rapid economic growth of the last 15 years will …

Ever since the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989, China has been at a crossroads. But
the signposts show not just two alternative directions, but three. There are, of course, the two …

Whether China will undertake political reform, which is broadly defined here as institutional
changes that rationalize bureaucracy, strengthen the rule of law, expand political …