China has, since 1976, been enmeshed in an extraordinary program of renewal and reform.
The obvious changes—the T-shirts, blue jeans, makeup and jewelry worn by Chinese youth; …

China today is riddled with uncertainties. Rapid growth, economic reform, political
liberalisation and extensive engagement with the outside world are producing a political …

Since the start of reform two decades ago, China's economy has experienced spectacular
growth. Today China has grown to be the world's seventh largest economy? or the world's …

It is not unusual for moments of crisis to become opportunities for renewal. China's political
crisis of 1989 is an excellent ex ample of such a moment; it exposed the cracks in the …

The commonplace term for the vast changes that have taken place in China since 1978 is
“reform”–an appropriate term insofar as it refers to aspects of the process by which these …

After thirty-five years of successful reforms first launched by Deng Xiaoping and his
colleagues at the famous Third Plenum of the Eleventh Central Committee in December …

Now updated with a chapter-length afterword by the editors on the end of the Deng era and
its aftermath, China in the 1990s provides a comprehensive survey of a nation in transition …

More than three years later, people can still vividly recall Tiananmen Square-the center of
Beijing, People's Republic of China-during the spring of 1989. Images of the young worker …

The 30 years of Chinese capitalistic" reforms" now exceeds the 29 years of socialist
revolution under Mao. A" new" China has emerged, economically powerful, showcased by …