"After a rich crop of journalistic treatments of China's dizzying changes in the 1980s and 1990s, publication of longer term economic, sociological, and historical analyses of the post-Mao period is now gathering momentum. This informative book should emerge as one of the most important of these efforts. Addressing a wide array of contemporary themes . . . the authors have produced a solid, general-purpose volume of use to graduate students as well as specialists."

"After a rich crop of journalistic treatments of China's dizzying changes in the 1980s and 1990s, publication of longer term economic, sociological, and historical analyses of the post-Mao period is now gathering momentum. This informative book should emerge as one of the most important of these efforts. Addressing a wide array of contemporary themes . . . the authors have produced a solid, general-purpose volume of use to graduate students as well as specialists."

"After a rich crop of journalistic treatments of China's dizzying changes in the 1980s and 1990s, publication of longer term economic, sociological, and historical analyses of the post-Mao period is now gathering momentum. This informative book should emerge as one of the most important of these efforts. Addressing a wide array of contemporary themes . . . the authors have produced a solid, general-purpose volume of use to graduate students as well as specialists."