Roderick MacFarquhar, Kenneth Lieberthal, Joyce Kallgren, Frederic Wakeman

• One: 1839: The Proscenium of Late Imperial China; 1: Emperors and the Chinese Political System; 2: The Structure of the Chinese Economy during the Qing Period; 3: Models of Historical Change; 4: The Enlightenment Mentality and the Chinese Intellectual Dilemma; Two: May Fourth Anniversary; 5: The May Fourth Movement as a Historical Turning Point; 6: The Social Agenda of May Fourth; 7: Modernity and Its Discontents; 8: The May Fourth Era; Three: The PRC's First Forty Years; 9: Powers of State, Paradoxes of Dominion; 10: The Pattern and Legacy of Economic Growth in the Mao Era; 11: State and Society in the Mao Era; 12: Chinese Communism in the Era of Mao Zedong, 1949-1976; Four: The Deng Era; 13: The Deng Era's Uncertain Political Legacy; 14: The Lasting Effect of China's Economic Reforms, 1979-1989; 15: The Renegotiation of Chinese Cultural Identity in the Post-Mao Era; 16: Reflections on the Opening of China

Roderick MacFarquhar, Kenneth Lieberthal, Joyce Kallgren, Frederic Wakeman

• One: 1839: The Proscenium of Late Imperial China; 1: Emperors and the Chinese Political System; 2: The Structure of the Chinese Economy during the Qing Period; 3: Models of Historical Change; 4: The Enlightenment Mentality and the Chinese Intellectual Dilemma; Two: May Fourth Anniversary; 5: The May Fourth Movement as a Historical Turning Point; 6: The Social Agenda of May Fourth; 7: Modernity and Its Discontents; 8: The May Fourth Era; Three: The PRC's First Forty Years; 9: Powers of State, Paradoxes of Dominion; 10: The Pattern and Legacy of Economic Growth in the Mao Era; 11: State and Society in the Mao Era; 12: Chinese Communism in the Era of Mao Zedong, 1949-1976; Four: The Deng Era; 13: The Deng Era's Uncertain Political Legacy; 14: The Lasting Effect of China's Economic Reforms, 1979-1989; 15: The Renegotiation of Chinese Cultural Identity in the Post-Mao Era; 16: Reflections on the Opening of China