Reinventing the Methodology of Studying Contemporary China

Peter Kien-hong YU (Ph.D., New York University, October 1983) is a Distinguished Professor and a former director at National Quemoy University, Taiwan, Republic of China. From October 1983 up to now, he has worked in various capacities such as the Dean of Research and Development at an institution of higher education, full professor at the National SUN Yat-sen University, senior research fellow at the National University of Singapore, full professor (at the managerial level) at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia, and visiting scholar at the University of Illinois and visiting (research) professor at Xiamen University and the East China Normal University which is affiliated with NYU. He is the author, co-author, editor, and co- editor of some 20 books in both English and Chinese, and some 120 journal articles and book chapters published in the West. He is the recipient of many fellowships, awards, and grants.

• Chapter 1. Launching a New Methodology for the Study of Contemporary China.- Chapter 2. Applying the One-dot Theory Again to the Study of Contemporary China.- Chapter 3. Finding Fault with the Non-One-Dot-Theory Study of Contemporary China.- Chapter 4. Challenging Other Theories and Models in General and Those Related to Contemporary China in Particular.- Chapter 5. Sharing Some Major Findings in This Study of Contemporary China.- Chapter 6. Closing and Non-Closing This Book on the Study of Contemporary China.