Table of Contents:
- Part 1. Introduction
- Land and people
- China's past in the present
- Part 2. The economy
- Economic growth and the changing economy
- Rural economy
- Urban and industrial economy
- Banking, finance and foreign trade
- Tourism and transport
- Part 3. Society
- Rural and urban social change
- Education and health
- Law and human rights
- Mass media
- Religion and ethnic minorities
- Gender and modernisation
- Environment
- Part 4. Politics and international relations
- Government and politics
- Fourth generation leadership
- Tibet
- Xinjiang
- Hong Kong
- Taiwan
- Western development programme
- China and the world 1: strategic relationships
- China and the world 2: new neighbours to the west
- China rising and a "harmonious society?"