1. The Maoist Period, 1949-78; mobilizational collectivism, primitive accumulation, and industrialization.
2. The Dengist Period: the triumphs and crises of structural reform, 1979 to present.
3. China and Hong Kong: the political economy of reunification.
4. Growing interdependence: economic relations between China and Taiwan.
5. China in East Asia: changing relations with Japan and Korea.
6. China and Southeast Asia in the 1990s: prospects for economic cooperation.
7. Plan versus market: China's socialist market economy.
8. China's urban industry.
9. The impact and prospects of rural enterprise.
10. The political consequences of China's agriculatural reforms.
11. The private sector in China's economic reforms.
12. Financial reform at the crossroads.
13. Foreign trade reform and relations with international economic institutions.
14. China's environment and natural resources.
15. Law reform and China's emerging market economy.
16. Political fetters, commercial freedoms: restraint and excess in Chinese mass communications.
18. Chinese labor in the reform era: changing fragmentation and new politics.
19. Education and economic reform.
20. China's social welfare reforms for a market economy: problems and prospects.
21. China's nationalities and nationality areas.