Introduction
David B. H. Denoon
Part I
1. The People’s Army: Serving Whose Interests?
June Teufel Dreyer
2. Uncertainty, Insecurity, and China’s Military Power
Paul H. B. Godwin
3. Does China Have a Grand Strategy?
Michael D. Swaine
4. Sino-American Relations since September 11: Can the New Stability Last?
David Shambaugh
5. Asia in the Balance: America and China’s “Peaceful Rise”
Robert Sutter
Part II
6. The Long March from Mao: China’s De-Communization
Liu Binyan
7. China’s North-South Split and the Forces of Disintegration
Edward Friedman
8. The Dangers of Economic Complacency
Barry Naughton
9. Rumblings from the Uyghur
Dru C. Gladney
10. Beijing’s Ambivalent Reformers
Bruce J. Dickson
11. China’s New Exchange Rate Regime
Barry Eichengreen
Part III
12. Is Democracy Possible?
Merle Goldman
13. The Leader in the Shadows
Lucian W. Pye
14. Village Elections: Democracy from the Bottom Up?
Tyrene White
15. An All-Consuming Nationalism
Michael Dutton
16. Understanding Falun Gong
Richard Madsen
17. China’s New Leadership
Tony Saich
18. China’s Environmental Challenge
Elizabeth Economy
Chronology of Recent Events
About the Contributors