This issue of iChinese Economic Studies/i presents three case studies of economic reform. These articles, which are translated from Sheng Hong, ed., iZhongguo zhidu bianqian de anli yanjiu/i [Case Studies in Institutional Change in China], reflect both the growing theoretical sophistication of...

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 iChinese Economic Studies/i translates an excerpt from iXiangxia sanshi nian/i (Thirty Years in the Countryside), which was compiled by several people involved in the rural reforms: Wang Gengjin, Yang Xun, Wang Ziping, Liang Xiaodong, and Yang Kuansan. With the blessings of the...

The theory of the "great international cycle" (iguoji da xunhuan/i) was worked out by two young researchers in the Economic Planning Institute of the State Planning Commission, Wang Jian and Pei Xiaolin. Wang Jian participated in the drafting of background material for the strategic section of...