China contemporary political, economic and international affairs

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.