Table of Contents

The People's Republic of China After 50 Years
An Overview of 50 Years of the People's Republic of China: Some Progress, but Big Problems Remain
The People's Republic of China at 50: National Political Reform
Political Movements, Change and Stability: The Chinese Communist Party in Power
The People's Republic of China at 50: The Economy
Two Decades of Rural Reform in China: An Overview and Assessment
Demolishing Partitions: Back to Beginnings in the Cities
The Environment in the People's Republic of China 50 Years On
China's Foreign Relations: The Long March, Future Uncertain
The People's Liberation Army and the People's Republic at 50: Reform at Last
The Chinese Legal System: Continuing Commitment to the Primacy of State Power
Social Welfare Reform: Trends and Tensions
Politically-Engaged Intellectuals in the 1990s
Art in China since 1949
Literary Decorum or Carnivalistic Grotesque: Literature in the People's Republic of China after 50 Years

About the Author

Senior Lecturer in Geography with reference to China at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, and Editor of The China Quarterly

Reviews

`Slender it may be, but it is not short of insights. This is particularly true of the Overview by Lucian W. Pye. If one could recommend to students or the educated public only one short essay about China during the past fifty years, this might be it'
Graham Hutchings, Asian Affairs