Fascinating and interesting [chapters] by a stellar cast of largely US-based China experts about many aspects of China's development—political, social, economic and environmental.

International Affairs

Provide[s] a timely, one-stop introduction to an array of critical issues facing China. Organized into sections on social order, economics, politics, and systemic constraints, the essays, all written by leading scholars . . . can stand alone as a valuable, discrete reading. Given this range of issues and China’s extraordinary transformation over the last thirty years, one that Fewsmith rightly concludes surpassed anyone’s imagination, predicting its future will be no easier. . . . This volume constitutes a good place to start.

Journal of Asian Studies

This is a first-rate collection on some of the most important social, economic, and political issues facing China, written by some of the most influential scholars on these subjects. Simultaneously historically grounded and addressing current issues, this book deserves to be read by all those interested in how China has got to where it is and where it may be heading.

Bruce Dickson, George Washington University

This book offers the best overview available of Chinese society, economy, and politics. It brings together many of the finest scholars on contemporary China, giving a rounded view of the PRC over the past thirty years and raising incisive questions about where China is going. The authors show that the country's rapid economic growth, adaptive authoritarian government, and developing institutions over the last three decades give hope for coping with difficult problems like pollution, climate change, corruption, and inequality.

Ezra F. Vogel, Harvard University