Frontmatter -- Advance Praise for The China Paradox, Second Edition -- Advance Praise for The China Paradox, First … China -- Chapter 2 Early Attempts at Industrialization: The Empire and the Republic -- Chapter 3 The First Decades of the … Heart of China’s Emergence -- Chapter 10 China’s Friction with the World -- Chapter 11 What Could Disrupt or Sustain the …

Prologue: china and an increasingly disrupted world -- Change, the Chinese principle and the greatest show on earth … change -- Managing change : China's x-factor -- The overseas connection -- Wen's Xun and Wenzhou theatre -- Battling within … the party for change -- Why many misunderstand China -- Why China's economy is misunderstood -- Economic change : the …