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Despite the significant progress it has achieved since 1949, especially since Deng Xiaoping's reform initiatives in the late 1970s, China faces daunting challenges today. These challenges include, among others, a rigid political system that does not match its economic vibrancy, uneven economic growth and a widening income gap, a graying population, environmental degradation, potential social instability, ethnic tensions and separatist movement, poor international image, and military modernization. Based mostly on papers originally presented at an international conference held at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania to mark the 60th anniversary of the People's Republic of China (PRC), this book provides an up-to-date, comprehensive, and authoritative assessment of the PRC's political, economic, social, ethnic, energy, security, military, diplomatic and other developments and challenges. Contributed by scholars and experts in political science, international relations, economics, public administration, history, mass communication, psychology, and diplomacy, the book focuses on the efforts needed by China to grow in a sustainable manner and to become a respected global power. With each chapter addressing a different and yet inter-related issue of the PRC's development, this book aims to make a significant contribution to the understanding of key challenges the country faces today as it strives to become a global power.

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• List of Abbreviations(p. ix)
• Notes on the Editor and Contributors(p. xiii)
• Foreword Delving Into the Challenges Confronting China(p. xxi)
• Introduction The People's Republic of China Today(p. 1)
• Part I Political Changes and Democratization(p. 25)
• Chapter 1 China's Leadership Succession and Change(p. 27)
• Chapter 2 A Tragic Miscarriage: How China's Quest for Political Reform is Undercut by the China Model(p. 45)
• Chapter 3 Concluding the Complex Learning Process: The Chinese Elites' Acceptance of Outward-Oriented Development(p. 71)
• Chapter 4 Political Accountability in Governance: An Informative Appraisal of China's Political Change(p. 99)
• Chapter 5 Liberalism and Its Impact on China's Reform(p. 125)
• Part II Economic and Social Challenges(p. 153)
• Chapter 6 China's Demographic Dividends: Past Gains and Future Pains(p. 155)
• Chapter 7 Smashing the Iron Rice Bowls: Severing Ties Between the Chinese State and Socialist Workers(p. 179)
• Chapter 8 Developing a PAYGO Social Security System in China: Retrospect and Prospect(p. 199)
• Chapter 9 An Unprecedented Challenge: Can the Internet be Successfully Controlled?(p. 213)
• Chapter 10 Spiritual Beliefs and Ethnic Relations in China: A Cross-Cultural and Social Psychological Perspective(p. 239)
• Chapter 11 Tourism, Modernization, and Nation-Building: The Case of the Yangzi Delta(p. 259)
• Part III Challenges in Foreign, Security, and Military Policies(p. 289)
• Chapter 12 China's Public Diplomacy in a New Era(p. 291)
• Chapter 13 Foreign Publicity with Weak Political Credibility: A Case Study of Beijing's Foreign Publicity Over the Tibet Riots(p. 311)
• Chapter 14 China's Search for Energy and Climate Security in an Interdependent World(p. 331)
• Chapter 15 The Coming of a Prosperous China with Strong Military Power(p. 357)
• Chapter 16 Extended Horizon: China's Blue-Water Navy Ambition and Its Implications(p. 385)
• Chapter 17 Alternative Perspectives on US-China Relations(p. 405)
• Conclusion: Whither China in the 21st Century?(p. 429)
• Index(p. 441)