Introduction: Myths and lessons of contemporary Chinese history / William C. Kirby
Keynote address: The People's Republic of China at sixty / Roderick MacFarquhar
The foundations of communist rule in China : the coercive dimension / David Shambaugh
Mao Zedong and the origins of the Anti-Rightist Rectification Campaign / Shen Zhihua [in Chinese]
Ideal, effort, and alienation of socialism in China : an exploration from a materialistic view of history / Yang Kuisong [in Chinese]
China's three rises, regional power transitions, and East Asian security : 1949 to the twenty-first century / Robert S. Ross
The People's Republic of China at sixty : is it rising? / Alastair Iain Johnston and Sheena Chestnut
Why China gets a "rise" out of us : ruminations on PRC foreign relations / Alan M. Wachman
"Sixty is the new forty" (or is it?) : reflections on the health of the Chinese body politic / Elizabeth J. Perry
Popular protest and party rule : China's evolving polity / Andrew G. Walder
Agriculture, imports, and diplomacy : three case studies on the interaction between Chinese party rule and popular will / Niu Dayong [in Chinese]
Urban residential district making in China / Peter G. Rowe
"Turning rubbish into something useful" : crime and punishment in Mao's China / Klaus Mühlhahn
A fine balance : Chinese entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship in historical perspective / Elisabeth Köll
Turning around state-owned enterprises under China's political business model / Jean Oi
Health, subjectivity, and moral change in China / Arthur Kleinman
Health care reforms in China : slogan or solution? / Barry R. Bloom and Yuanli Liu
Rushing toward socialism : the transformation and death of private business enterprises in Shanghai, 1949-1956 / Feng Xiaocai
Short-term stimuli and the prospects for long-term growth in China / Dwight H. Perkins
Myth of the social volcano : popular responses to rising inequality in China / Martin King Whyte
The making of a hero : Lei Feng and some issues of historiography / Xiaofei Tian
Rediscovery of the frontier in recent Chinese history / Xiaoyuan Liu
The role of China's public intellectuals in the People's Republic of China / Merle Goldman
The end of intellectuals : sixty years of service, subversion, and selling in China / Timothy Cheek
The politics of national celebrations in China / Chang-tai Hung
Ming fever : the past in the present in the People's Republic of China at sixty / Michael Szonyi
The tenacity of culture : old stories in the new China / Paul A. Cohen
National minds and imperial frontiers : Inner Asia and China in the new century / Mark C. Elliott
Concluding comments / Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik.
