Contents
Editor's Note
Preface
Part 1: Geography and History, Edited by Thomas Buoye
Introduction - Thomas Buoye
Readings
1. China's Environmental History in World Perspective - J. R. McNeill
2. The Uniting of China - Dru C. Gladney
3. Confucius - John E. Wills, Jr.
4. History and China's Revolution - John King Fairbank
5. A Proclamation Against the Bandits of Guangdong
and Guangxi, 1854
6. The Boxer Uprising - Paul A. Cohen
7. The Chinese Enlightenment - Vera Schwarcz
8. Sun Yat-sen Opens the Whampoa Academy, 1924
9. Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan - Mao Zedong
10. Collapse of Public Morale - A. Doak Barnett
11. American Exclusion Act, May 6, 1882
12. Chinese Anti-Foreignism, 1892
Suggestions for Further Reading
Part 2: Politics, Edited by Bruce Dickson
Introduction - Bruce Dickson
Readings
13. The Beijing Upheaval of 1989 - Andrew G. Walder
14. China Since Tiananmen Square - Stanley Rosen
15. Human Rights in China - Andrew Nathan
16. Chinese Nationalistic Writing in the 1990s - Suisheng Zhao
17. A Quiet Roar: China's Leadership Feels Threatened by a Sect Seeking Peace - Erik Eckholm
18. China's Emerging Business Class: Democracy's Harbinger? - Margaret M. Pearson
19. Village Elections: Democracy from the Bottom Up? - Tyrene White
20. The Virus of Corruption - James Miles
Suggestions for Further Reading
Part 3: Society, Edited by Martin King Whyte
Introduction - Martin King Whyte
Readings
21. Family and Household - Charlotte Ikels
22. Home-cured Tobacco—A Tale of Three Generations in a Chinese Village - Daniel Wright
23. How Come You Aren't Divorced Yet? - Zhang Xinxin
24. Human Rights Trends and Coercive Family Planning - Martin King Whyte
25. McDonald's in Beijing: The Localization of Americana - Yunxiang Yan
26. The Fengshui Resurgence in China - Ole Bruun
27. China's Catholics - Richard Madsen
28. Urban Spaces and Experiences of Qigong - Nancy N. Chen
29. Chinese Women in the 1990s: Images and Roles in Contention - Stanley Rosen
30. Hey Coolie! Local Migrant Labor - Daniel Wright
31. Second Class Citizen - Ge Fei
Homosexuals in Beijing - Jin Ren
32. Elementary Education - Charlotte Ikels
Suggestions for Further Reading
Part 4: Economy, Edited by Barry Naughton
Introduction - Barry Naughton
Readings
33. China 2020: Understanding the Present - The World Bank
34. Is a Rich Man Happier than a Free Man? - Cheng Li
35. How to Reform a Planned Economy: Lessons from China - John McMillan and Barry Naughton
36. Rural-Urban Divide: Economic Disparities in China - John Knight and Lina Song
37. Development in Chinese Corporate Finance - Weiying Zhang
Suggestions for Further Reading
Part 5: Culture, Edited by Kirk A. Denton
Introduction - Kirk A. Denton
Figures and Readings: Figures
38. Medicine - Lu Xun
39. Autumn Night - Lu Xun
40. Talks at the Yan'an Forum on Art and Literature - Mao Zedong
41. Sealed Off - Zhang Ailing
42. The Unglovable Hands - Zhao Shuli
43. On the Other Side of the Stream - Kong Jiesheng
44. Responsibility - Perry Link
45. On the Road at 18 - Yu Hua
46. Deathsong of the River - Su Xiaokang and Wang Luxiang
47. I Have Nothing - Cui Jian
48. Playing for ThrilIs - Wang Shuo
49. The Revolution of Resistance - Geremie R. Barmé
50. Fin de Siècle Splendor - Zhu Tianwen
51. Four Stanzas on Homesickness - Yu Guangzhong
Suggestions for Further Reading
Part 6: Future Trends, Edited by Bruce Dickson
Introduction - Bruce Dickson
Readings
52. The New Guard - Susan V. Lawrence
53. The Chinese Web Opens Portals to New Way of Life - John Pomfret
54. The Chinese Future - Michel Oksenberg, Michael D. Swain, and Daniel Lynch
55. Prospects for Democratization in China - Martin King Whyte
56. The Fifth Modernization - Wei Jingsheng
Suggestions for Further Reading
Sources
The Editors
Index