This introductory textbook provides students with a fundamental understanding of government and politics in China, and equips students with analytical frameworks by which they can understand, analyse and evaluate the major issues in Chinese politics, including:

Part 1: Introducing Chinese Politics 1. Chinese Politics in Comparative Communist Systems 2. Theoretical Models for Studying Chinese Politics Part 2: Land and People 3. Shaping Forces of Chinese State Making, Political Culture, and Political Tradition 4. Traditional Chinese Culture and Confucianism Part 3: Political Development 5. The Collapse of Imperial State and the Communist Road to Power 6. The Making of Communist New State and the post-Mao Transition Part 4: Political Ideology 7. Marxism-Leninism and Chinese Political Ideology 8. Ideological Modifications in Post-Mao China Part 5: Political Institutions 9. The Party-State Structure of Chinese Government 10. Institutional Changes in post-Mao China Part 6: The Chinese Legal and Legislative Systems 11. The Chinese Legal and Legislative Systems 12. Legal and Legislative Reforms in Post-Mao China Part 7: The Chinese Society 13. Chinese Social Structure and State-Society Relations 14. Social Changes and State-Society Relations in Post-Mao China Part 8: The Chinese Economy 15. State Socialism and Chinese Communist Economy 16. Market Socialism and Economic Transition in Post-Mao China Part 9: Chinese Foreign Policy 17. Chinese Foreign Policy Making 18. US-China Relations in Transformation