This long article by Kang Xiaoguang of the Chinese Academy of Sciences is an effort to sum up the state of society and politics in contemporary China and to ask the critical question: Is it stable? In some ways, the picture that Kang draws is encouraging: the intellectual elite is more...

This issue of iThe Chinese Economy/i presents two research reports on the development of the private economy in Zhejiang province and on efforts to define the phenomenon in Marxist terms and bring it under party control. The first is a two-part investigation study done by researchers at the...