China briefing 2000 : the continuing transformation / Tyrene White, editor ; published in cooperation with the Asia Society ; Mai Shaikhanuar-Cota, series editor.

"An East gate book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-382) and index.

Historical echoes and Chinese politics : can China leave the twentieth century behind? / Joseph Fewsmith -- Chinese economy : fifty years into the transformation / Barry Naughton -- Power, patronage, and protest in rural China / Jonathan Unger -- The shape of society : the changing demography of development / Tyrene White -- Promises and pitfalls of reform : new thinking in post-Deng China / Cheng Li -- The politics of consumerism in Chinese society / Yunxiang Yan -- Gender and nationalism in China at the turn of the millennium / Susan Brownell -- Dangerous liaisons : China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the United States at the turn of the century / Nancy Bernkopf Tucker -- The more things change, the more they remain the same : the world, the United States, and the People's Republic of China, 1949-1999 / Bruce Cummings -- Chronology : 1997-1999 / Nancy R. Hearst -- Historical chronology of the twentieth century / Nancy R. Hearst.