Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the new "New China"
- Search for socialism: from liberation to utopia
- Mao Zedong versus the party: from cult to Cultural Revolution
- The rebel alternative: from 1919 to the Red Guards
- Second cultural revolution: the abortive Great Debate
- Economics in command: the modernization of China
- Peasant China transformed: the rise of rural enterprise
- The growth of dissent: poets and democracy
- The party under pressure: reform and reaction
- The scholars speak out: humanism or bourgeois liberalism?
- The door opens wide: China and the world economy
- Tiananmen Square, 1989: turning-point for China
- Into the new millennium: China transformed
- China and the world: from Mao to market.