Introduction : State and intellectuals at the turn of the century
Part I : Line struggle revisited : the attack on Deng's reform program
Tiananmen and the conservative critique of reform ; Deng moves to revive reform
Part II : Redefining reform : the search for a new way
Emergence of neoconservatism ; Enlightenment tradition under challenge ; Emergence of neostatism and popular nationalism
Part III : Elite politics and popular nationalism
Jiang Zemin's rise to power ; Elite politics in an era of globalization and nationalism