Introduction: Is China's transformation sustainable? / David B. H. Denoon
Part I: Foreign policy and national security
The people's army: serving whose interests? / June Teufel Dreyer
Uncertainty, insecurity, and China's military power / Paul H. B. Godwin
Does China have a grand strategy? / Michael D. Swaine
Sino-American relations since September 11: can the new stability last? / David Shambaugh
Asia in the balance: America and China's "peaceful rise" / Robert Sutter
Part II: Economic policy and social issues
The long march from Mao: China's de-communization / Liu Binyan
China's north-south split and the forces of disintegration / Edward Friedman
The dangers of economic complacency / Barry Naughton
Rumblings from the Uyghur / Dru C. Gladney
Beijing's ambivalent reformers / Bruce J. Dickson
China's new exchange rate regime / Barry Eichengreen
Part III: Domestic politics and governance
Is democracy possible? / Merle Goldman
The leader in the shadows: a view of Deng Xiaoping / Lucian W. Pye
Village elections: democracy from the bottom up? / Tyrene White
An all-consuming nationalism / Michael Dutton
Understanding Falun Gong / Richard Madsen
China's new leadership: the challenges to the politics of muddling through / Tony Saich
China's environmental challenge / Elizabeth Economy
Chronology of recent events
About the contributors.