'This is an important book on the evolution of the Chinese intelligentsia during the reform era.' - The China Journal

• List of illustrations Notes on contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: The transformations of the relationship between Chinese Intellectuals and the State Part 1 The Transformation of the Intellectual Public Sphere 1. Social Capital, Institutional Change and the Development of Non-Governmental Intellectual Organizations in China 2. Underdogs, Lapdogs and Watchdogs: Journalists and the Public Sphere Problematic in China 3. Have We Been Noticed Yet? Intellectual Contestation and the Chinese Web Part 2 The Changing Relationship Between Intellectuals and the Party-state 4. From Patronage to Profits: the changing relationship of Chinese intellectuals with the Party-state 5. China's Technical Community: Market Reforms and the Changing Policy Cultures of Science 6. Intellectuals and the Politics of Protest: the Case of the China Democracy Party Part 3 Ideological Alternatives in the Intellectual Public Sphere 7. The Fate of an Enlightenment: Twenty Years in the Chinese Intellectual Sphere (1978-1998) 8. Historians as Public Intellectuals in Contemporary China 9. The Party-state, Liberalism and Social Democracy: the Debate on China's Future Part 4 New Era, New Roles 10. Chinese Intellectuals Facing the Challenges of the New Century Index