Richard Baum is professor of political science at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is editor of China in Ferment: Perspectives on the Cultural Revolution (1971) and author of Prelude to Revolution: Mao, the Party, and the Peasant Question, 1962-66 (1975). He is currently working on a long-term study of U.S.-China trade and technological relations under a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation. He organized and chaired the January 1979 Bermuda workshop on China's technological development.

• 1. Introduction 2. The Modernization of Chinese Industry 3. Recent Policy Trends in Industrial Science and Technology 4. A Note on Recent Policy Changes 5. The Institutional Structure for Industrial Research and Development in China 6. China's Program of Technology Acquisition 7. The Absorption and Assimilation of Acquired Technology 8. China's Energy Technology 9. The Modernization of National Defense 10. Conclusion: The Four Modernizations Reconsidered