Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: social-economic transition and cultural reconstruction in China / Li Xiaobing
  • pt. 1. Tradition vs. changes. Political culture and social change: rethinking China's experience / Liu Guoli. The social origins of historical changes in freedom of mate choice under state socialism: the case of urban China / Xu Xiaohe
  • pt. 2. Rural challege. The role of villager committees in rural China's stability / Hong Zhaohui. Economic reform and social instability in rural China / Chen Weixing. Fiscal reform and state capacity building / Zhang Baohui
  • pt. 3. Reforming or revolting society. The effects of structural changes in community and work unit in China / Zhang Lening and Deng Xiaogang. Crime in China's modernization / Chen Jiafang. The development of communication information infrastructure: a revolution in networking / Yu Yanmin
  • pt. 4. Changed image. Student attitudes toward free markets: China and the United States compared / Jessie X. Fan, Xiao Jing J., and Xu Yinzhou. The effect of social changes on address norms in China / Li Jian. The resurgence of Chinese anti-Americanism in the Post-Cold War Era / Xu Guangqiu.