China's Deep Reform

Lowell Dittmer is professor of political science at the University of California, Berkeley, and editor of Asian Survey. Guoli Liu is associate professor of political science at the College of Charleston.

• Introduction: The Dynamics of Deep ReformChapter 1: Analysis in Limbo? Contemporary Chinese Politics amid the Maturation of ReformPart I: Leadership Change and Elite PoliticsChapter 2: Leadership Coalitions and Economic Transformation in Reform China: Revisiting the Political Business CycleChapter 3: The Sixteenth Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party: Emerging Patterns of Power SharingChapter 4: Cooptation and Corporatism in China: The Logic of Party AdaptationPart II: Political and Legal ReformsChapter 5: Political Legitimacy in China's Transition: Toward a Market EconomyChapter 6: China's Constitutionalist OptionChapter 7: Globalization, Path Dependency, and the Limits of Law: Administrative Law Reform and Rule of Law in the People's Republic of ChinaPart III: Political Economy in TransitionChapter 8: The Process of China's Market Transition, 1978–1998: The Evolutionary, Historical, and Comparative PerspectivesChapter 9: Openness and Inequality: The Case of ChinaPart IV: The Changing Public SphereChapter 10: Negotiating the State: The Development of Social Organizations in ChinaChapter 11: The Internet and Civil Society in China: Coevolutionary Dynamics and Digital FormationsChapter 12: Historical Echoes and Chinese Politics: Can China Leave the Twentieth Century Behind?Part V: Villagers, Elections, and Worker's PoliticsChapter 13: Village Committee Elections in China: Institutionalist Tactics for DemocracyChapter 14: Villagers, Elections, and Citizenship in Contemporary ChinaChapter 15: Hegemony and Workers' Politics in ChinaPart VI: Emerging Problems: The Shadow Side of ReformChapter 16: A Broken Compact: Women's Health in the Reform EraChapter 17: New Trends in China's Corruption: Change amid ContinuityChapter 18: Market Visions: The Interplay of Ideas and Institutions in Chinese Financial RestructuringConclusion: China's Reform Deepening

This impressive anthology presents a selection of articles on China's post-Mao reform, which together offer a detailed analysis of their political and economic effects both in China and abroad.