Has China become just another capitalist country in a socialist cloak? Will the Chinese Communist Party's rule survive the next ten years of modernization and globalization? Frank Pieke investigates these conundrums in this fascinating account of how government officials are trained for placement in the Chinese Communist Party. Through in-depth interviews with staff members and aspiring trainees, he shows that while the Chinese Communist Party has undergone a radical transformation since the revolutionary years under Mao, it is still incumbent upon cadres, who are selected through a highly rigorous process, to be ideologically and politically committed to the party. It is the lessons learnt through their teachers that shape the political and economic decisions they will make in power. The book offers unique insights into the structure and the ideological culture of the Chinese government, and how it has reinvented itself over the last three decades as a neo-socialist state.

日本问题对中国政治发展的影响是本书的主题。“九一八事变”后，蒋介石奉行”攘外必先安内”的政策。这种政策在“西安事变”中并没有中断，直到1 937年8月在上海爆发战争，它才被完全放弃。作者在民族国家建设的分析框架下，用国民党、共产党叙事之外的“第三只眼睛”审视国民党政权建设与民族主义意识形态之间的一致与冲突，有助于我们加深对“南京十年建国时期”（1927～1937）的认识。

序 中国法文化的考察－－以诉讼的形态为素材 清代诉讼制度之民事法源的概括性考察－－情、理、法 清代诉讼制度之民事法源的考察－－作为法源的习惯 关于滋贺秀三教授论文的解说 日本的清代司法制度研究与对“法”的理解 明清时期法秩序中的“约”的性质权利与冤抑－－清代听讼和民从的民事法秩序 关于寺田浩明教授论文的解说 明清契约文书 伦理经济论与中国社会研究 “市民社会论”与中国 关于岸本美绪教授论文的解说 明清时代的讼师与诉讼制度 关于夫马进教授论文的解说 评论 跋

China's bold program of reforms launched in the late 1970s--the move to a market economy and the opening to the outside world--ended the political chaos and economic stagnation of the Cultural Revolution and sparked China's unprecedented economic boom. Yet, while the reforms made possible a rising standard of living for the majority of China's population, they came at the cost of a weakening central government, increasing inequalities, and fragmenting society. The essays of Barry Naughton, Joseph Fewsmith, Paul H. B. Godwin, Murray Scot Tanner, Lianjiang Li and Kevin J. O'Brien, Tianjian Shi, Martin King Whyte, Thomas P. Bernstein, Dorothy J. Solinger, David S. G. Goodman, Kristen Parris, Merle Goldman, Elizabeth J. Perry, and Richard Baum and Alexei Shevchenko analyze the contradictory impact of China's economic reforms on its political system and social structure. They explore the changing patterns of the relationship between state and society that may have more profound significance for China than all the revolutionary movements that have convulsed it through most of the twentieth century.

本书据美国加州大学出版社1986年版译出。评价了19世纪中亚商业资本主义对中国经济和社会的影响,阐明了近代中国历代上三个相关联的问题,即资本主义萌芽、经济帝国主义、条约口岸影响中国的历史作用。