Perspectives on Modern China : Four Anniversaries Book

	Preface
	Contributors
Pt. 1	1839: The Proscenium of Late Imperial China	1
1	Emperors and the Chinese Political System	5
2	The Structure of the Chinese Economy during the Qing Period: Some Thoughts on the 150th Anniversary of the Opium War	31
3	Models of Historical Change: The Chinese State and Society, 1839-1989	68
4	The Enlightenment Mentality and the Chinese Intellectual Dilemma	103
Pt. 2	May Fourth Anniversary	119
5	The May Fourth Movement as a Historical Turning Point: Ecological Exhaustion, Militarization, and Other Causes of China's Modern Crisis	123
6	The Social Agenda of May Fourth	139
7	Modernity and Its Discontents: The Cultural Agenda of the May Fourth Movement	158
8	The May Fourth Era: China's Place in the World	178
Pt. 3	The PRC'S First Forty Years	201
9	Powers of State, Paradoxes of Dominion: China 1949-1979	205
10	The Pattern and Legacy of Economic Growth in the Mao Era	226
11	State and Society in the Mao Era	255
12	Chinese Communism in the Era of Mao Zedong, 1949-1976	275
Pt. 4	The Deng Era	305
13	The Deng Era's Uncertain Political Legacy	309
14	The Lasting Effect of China's Economic Reforms, 1979-1989	341
15	The Renegotiation of Chinese Cultural Identity in the Post-Mao Era: An Anthropological Perspective	364
16	Reflections on the Opening of China	387
	Index	419