China's New Political Economy: Revised Edition
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Tables and Illustrations -- Preface to the English Language Edition -- Preface to the Japanese Edition -- List of Acronyms -- Introduction: Six Realities and Unrealities About the Chinese Economy -- The Proposition of China's Impending Collapse (or China's Strategic Threat) -- The Proposition of China's Food Crisis -- The Proposition of a Chinese Energy Crisis or Environmental Crisis -- The Proposition of a Chinese Economic "Bubble" -- The Proposition of China's Huge Domestic Market -- The Proposition of Chinese "Country Risk" -- Part 1 Toward a Basic Understanding of the Chinese Economy -- 1 A Huge Country: An Amalgamation of "Small Countries" -- China's Area and Population in Global Perspective -- Another United Nations: "The Chinese Confederation of States" -- China's Provinces—Like Separate Countries -- 2 Population Pressure: The Challenge of 1.6 Billion People in 2030 -- The Chinese Population Pyramid -- Population Trends Since 1949 -- China's Model for Birth Control -- Population Projection for the Twenty-first Century -- 3 The Volatile History of "Chinese Socialism -- The Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping Eras -- Distinct Periods Within the Mao Zedong Era -- Distinct Periods Within the Deng Xiaoping Era -- The Jiang Zemin System and the Path of "Reform and Liberalization" -- 4 The Political System: The Role of the Chinese Communist Party as the "Conservative Party -- The Chinese Communist Party as the "Economic Development Party" -- Control Over Nonparty Organizations -- The National People's Congress's Role of Confirming the Decisions of the Communist Party -- 5 Economic System Reform: The Progress of the Market Economy Program -- The Fifty-Point Program for the Market Economy (1993) -- Status of Economic System Reform (1997)