I: The Context for Analyzing China; China's Transition to the Post-Deng Era; The Dynamics of Internal Policies; Power Structure and Key Political Players in China; External Factors Affecting the Economy; Commentaries China's Biggest Problem: Gridlock, not Revolution; Some Thoughts on the Context for Analyzing China; II: Reforms; Overview; The Problematic Future of China's Economic Reforms; China's Mixed Economic System: Properties and Consequences; The Performance of China's Economy; The Cyclical Future of China's Economic Reforms; Inflation in China: Patterns, Causes and Cures; Price Reforms vs. Enterprise Autonomy: which should have Priority?; Taxation Reform in China's Public Finance; Provincial Economic Differences Diminished in the Decade of Reform; A Systemic Analysis of Prospects for China's Economy; III: Social and Human Factors; Overview; China's Population Changes and the Economy; Birth Planning Between Plan and Market: The Impact of Reform on China's One-Child Policy; Social Security for State-Sector Workers in the People's Republic of China: the Reform Decade and Beyond; China's Environment; Issues and Economic Implications 1; The Economic Costs of Intellectual Alienation; The Impact of Mao's Legacy on China's Reforms; IV: Modernization; A. Agriculture; Overview; China's Agricultural Policy During the Reform Period 1; China's Agricultural Reforms: Evaluation and Outlook; Primary Issues in China's Grain Economy in the 1990s; Loss and Misuse of China's Cultivated Land; Rural Industry: Constraining the Leading Growth Sector in China's Economy; B. Industry; Overview; China's Enduring State Factories: why Ten Years of Reform have Left China's Big State Factories Unchanged; Modernizing China's Transport System; China's Growing Airlines and Aviation Industry; China's Telecommunications and American Strategic Interests; China's Energy Outlook; C. Science and Technology; Overview; Fragmented Innovation: China's Science and Technology Policy Reforms in Retrospect 1; China's High Technology: Programs, Problems, and Prospects; China's Acquisition and Assimilation of Foreign Technology: Beijing's Search for Excellence; China's Space Program; The Effects of Tiananmen on China's International Scientific and Educational Cooperation; Perspectives on China's Brain Drain; D. Military; Overview; Chinese Defense Policy and Military Strategy in the 1990s; Chinese Military Capabilities: Problems and Prospects; Interpreting Trends in Chinese Defense Spending; China in Transition: Military Concerns and Ability to Influence Events; China's arms sales: overview and outlook for the 1990s; V: Interdependence; Overview; Costs and Benefits of Interdependence: A Net Assessment; China's Foreign Commercial Relations; The Business Climate in China: Half Empty or Half Full?; China's Potential for Export-Led Growth; China's Relations with Multilateral Economic Institutions; In Search of Excellence in China's Industrial Sector: The Chinese Enterprise and Foreign Technology; Chinese Law Relating to Foreign Investment and Trade: The Decade of Reform in Retrospect; Reform and Retrenchment in China's Special Economic Zones; Hong Kong and China in the 1990s; China's Asian Trade: Opportunities and Dilemmas; U.S.-China Commercial Relations: A Decade After Normalization; Sino-Soviet Trade in the 1980s and 1990s: Politics, Pragmatism, and Profits