COVER STORY - The biggest threat to China's Communist Party is corruption within its own ranks. Now, afraid of being engulfed by public anger, even the party wants a cure. But a patient cannot operate on itself, and that realization is allowing reformers to flirt with ideas for radical change that would expose the party to checks and balances. Yet if it surrenders its monopoly on power, can it ...

COVER STORY - Driven by hunger, North Koreans no longer look to their leaders to deliver them from famine. Thousands cross into and out of China, breaching the wall of isolation and ignorance that has allowed their Stalinist system to survive. Impressed by the success of China's market reforms, they go home with food, money and new ideas--ideas that may loosen the grip of a regime that threatens ...

Hoon, Shim Jae, (1999)

COVER STORY - High fees, slow speeds, red tape--all the old barriers to Internet use in China are toppling. The government has caught Internet fever and wants everyone on-line. As Susan V. Lawrence reports, the authorities still strive to keep out dangerous ideas. But they've decided the Internet's economic promise outweighs the political risk. Plus: a tour of interesting Chinese Web sites and ...

Lawrence, Susan V., (1999)

Hong Kong and China : for better or for worse

Ching, Frank, (1985)