SHIPING HUA is Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Louisville, USA.SUJIAN GUO is Associate Professor of Political Science, San Francisco State University, USA.

"There is no story bigger than China's rise and its impact on the United States and the world in the twenty-first Century. With China's astonishing changes, both in speed and in substance, it seems hard for the China scholarship to catch up. As there is indeed a tremendous need to comprehend the complexity of China's development and the challenges and opportunities it presents, we should welcome this new addition to our understanding of what is going on in China. This volume provides such a timely analysis. The editors carefully selected the topics and authors and made it a rich collection, with issues ranging from China's policy shift to the Internet in China." - Xiaobo Hu, professor of Political Science and director of Clemson University Center for China Studies'This is a very timely collection of well-written, insightful essays examining both the domestic politics and foreign policy of contemporary China. This book will be useful for any person wishing to better understand China in the twenty-first century.' - Joseph Fewsmith, Boston University

• Introduction: S.Hua & S.Guo PART I: POLITICAL REFORMS Social Harmony and Statecraft in an Era of Change in China; W.Chen Ending the Bureaucratic Technocracy: China's Quest for Political Legitimacy in the Era of Hu Jintao; B.Guo Setting New Standards for China's Performance Based on Governance, Not Democratization; S.Ogden PART II: POLITICAL ECONOMY AND DEVELOPMENT Business Interests and China's Use of Legal Trade Remedies; K.Zeng Political Dynamics of Mixed Economic Formation in China; G.Yang PART III: CHINESE POLITICAL CULTURE The New State of Chinese Media: Internet Crazes, Active Audiences, and Technologies of Control; B.L.McCormick The Internet and Political Participation in China; Y.Zhong & B.Li PART IV: CHINA'S FOREIGN POLICY The Roles of Misperceptions and Perceptual Gaps in the Sino-American Taiwan Strait Crisis of 1995-1996; G.Moore The Legal Status of Diaoyu Islands; K.Mao The Relations between CCP and KMT in Recent Years; P.Moody