Challenges Facing Chinese Political Development

Sujian Guo is professor in the Department of Political Science and director of the Center for U.S.-China Policy Studies at San Francisco State University, editor of the Journal of Chinese Political Science, and president of the Association of Chinese Political Studies.Baogang Guo is associate professor of political science at Dalton State College and president-elect of the Association of Chinese Political Studies.

The essays presented here demonstrate quite effectively that there are many different stakeholders with an interest in rural China, and a diverse array of ideas about how rural communities ought to be organized. This informative collection offers thoughtful insight on contemporary development trends and will be of interest to many scholars concerned with the rhetoric, and dynamics, of new organizational forms in the Chinese countryside.

• Part 1 Introduction: Challenges Facing Chinese Political DevelopmentPart 2 Political LegitimacyChapter 3 Nationalism, Market Reforms, and Political Support in Contemporary ChinaChapter 4 The Study of Chinese Political Culture from the Perspective of Communication as Social ConstructionPart 5 Political EconomyChapter 6 Explaining the Reform of China's Exchange Rate Regime: The Utility of Economic Interest ApproachesChapter 7 Information Technology for Ecological Analysis and the Future of Public Administration in ChinaPart 8 External ChallengesChapter 9 China: U.S. Partner, Competitor, or Threat—What Do the Americans Think?Chapter 10 Barking Up the Wrong Tree? The Master Narrative of "China Threat Theory" ExaminedPart 11 Environmental ChallengesChapter 12 The Dilemma of Western Industrial Civilization and China's Path in the 21st CenturyChapter 15 China's Polution Challenge: the Impact of Economic Growth and Environmental Complaints on Environmental and Social OutcomesPart 16 Social ChallengesChapter 17 Engaging the Law: Migrant Workers, Social Networks, and the Chinese Labor LawChapter 18 Modernization, Economic Development and Inter-Ethnic Relations in China