Introduction. Evolution of the CCP: progress, problems, and prospects / Xiaobing Li and Xiansheng Tian
Part One. Evolution of the revolution: from Mao to Deng
1. Local revolution, grassroots mobilization and wartime: power shift to the rise of communism / Patrick Fuliang Shan
2. Mao Zedong and the CCP: adaptation, centralization, and succession / Yi Sun and Xiaobing Li
3. Mao's death and Hua Guofeng's tragedy / Guangqiu Xu
4. Personality and politics: Deng Xiaoping's return / Jingyi Song
Part Two. Mountain moving and reconstruction: from Deng to Jiang
5. Deng's reform: theory and practice / Enbao Wang
6. Grooming the titan: Deng and the PLA
7. Freedom of speech and China's democratization / Shuming Lu and Changfu Chang
8. Jiang Zemin: technocrats vs. bureaucratic system / Liying Li and Denise Mowder
Part Three. Institution, regulation, and globalization: from Jiang to Hu
9. Mapping the power-capital economy: Chinese reform in Jiang's era / George Zhaohui Hong
10. Political institutionalization and new civil-military relations / Pingchao Zhu
11. Legal reform under jiang / Qiang Fang
12. One system, two frames: news reports on the WTO and SARS / Changfu Chang
13. Hu Jintao's rhetoric on building a modern humane government / Shaorong Huang
Part Four. Struggle, society, and stability: from Hu to Xi
14. China's evolving civil society and grassroots empowerment / Jieli Li
15. Internet and public opinion: an engine for political transformation? / Zhinuo Wang
16. When Chongqing challenges Beijing: the Bo Xilai case / Xiansheng Tian
17. The unity and stability: Xi Jinping's promise and the CCP'¿s future / Xiaoxiao li
Conclusion. Chinese characters: transformation and continuity / Xiaobing Li and Xiansheng Tian.
