Transforming the property rights / Xiaobo Hu -- Employment and development : China's employment problem and employment strategy / Angang Hu -- Redefining the role of the state in economic transition / Guoli Liu -- Old paradigms, new paradigms, and democratic changes in China / Baogang Guo -- China's leadership after the 15th Party Congress : changes and implications / Shiping Zheng -- Are Chinese still interested in politics? / Jie Chen & Yang Zhong -- Transition of China's media import policy in the 1990s : continuities, discontinuities, and new trends / Junhao Hong -- Can the news media meet the challenges in China's post-Deng reform? / Yanmin Yu -- Democratization and organized dissent within the party-state : comparisons between China and Hungary / Thomas Lum -- China's democratic prospect in the post-Deng era / Gang Lin -- China's foreign policy in the beginning of the twenty-first century / Joseph Y.S. Cheng