ntroduction Allen Carlson, Mary Gallagher and Melanie Manion Part I. Sources: 1. State-generated data and contentious politics in China Xi Chen 2. Why archives? Neil J. Diamant 3. The central committee, past and present: a method of quantifying elite biographies Victor Shih, Wei Shan and Mingxing Liu 4. Experimental methods and psychological measures in the study of Chinese foreign policy Peter Hays Gries 5. Internet resources and the study of Chinese foreign relations: can cyberspace shed new light on China's approach to the world? Allen Carslon and Hong Duan 6. Information overload? Collecting, managing, and analyzing Chinese media content Daniela Stockman Part II. Qualitative Methods: 7. The worm's-eye view: using ethnography to illuminate labor politics and institutional change in contemporary China Calvin Chen 8. More than an interview, less than Sedaka: studying subtle and hidden politics with site-intensive methods Benjamin L. Read 9. Cases, questions, and comparison in research on contemporary Chinese politics William Hurst Part III. Survey Methods: 10. A survey of survey research on Chinese politics: what have we learned? Melanie Manion 11. Surveying prospects for political change: capturing political and economic variation in empirical research in China Bruce J. Dickson 12. Using clustered spatial data to study diffusion: the case of legal institutions in China Pierre F. Landry 13. Measuring change and stability over a decade in the Beijing area study Mingming Shen and Ming Yang with Melanie Manion 14. Quantitative research and issues of political sensitivity in rural China Lily L. Tsai Reflections on the evolution of the China field in political science Kenneth Lieberthal Glossary.