Is China Unstable?: Assessing the Factors: Assessing the Factors

Focuses on the potential for instability in China from political, economic, and historical perspectives. The book considers elite (national) and local politics, micro- and macro-economics, urban and rural conditions, attitudes among intellectuals, and minority areas. The high profile contributors include Thomas Bernstein, Pieter Bottelier, Bruce Dickson, June Dryer, Merle Goldman, Steven Jackson, Nicholas Lardy, H. Lyman Miller, David Shambaugh, and Dorothy Solinger.

David Shambaugh is Professor of Political Science and International Affairs and Director of the China Policy Program in the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University. He is also a nonresident Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at The Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. He is former Editor of The China Quarterly and has published widely on various aspects of contemporary Chinese and Asian affairs. His Reforming China's Military and edited The Modern Chinese State will be published in the year 2000. He recently co-edited China's Military Faces the Future (1999) with James Lilley, and The China Reader: The Reform Era (1999) with Orville Schell. Thomas Bernstein is Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. He has published extensively on various aspects of Chinese politics, while his current research relates to the politics of China's rural areas and public sphere. He has recently published chapters in Merle Goldman and Roderick MacFarquhar (eds.), The Paradox of China's Post-Mao Reforms and James Morley (ed.), Driven by Growth: Political Change in the Asia-Pacific Region (second edition). Pieter Bottelier recently retired as a country director and senior economist with the World Bank. His long experience in the World Bank includes service in Africa, Latin America, and Asia. He was Chief of the World Bank's resident mission in China from 1993-1997. He is an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, and is an independent consultant on economic transition policies and investment. Bruce Dickson is Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs and Director of the Sigur Center of Asian Studies at George Washington University. June Teufel Dreyer is Professor of Politics at the University of Miami. Merle Goldman is Professor of Chinese History at Boston University, as well as a Research Associate at the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard University. Steven F. Jackson is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Nicholas Lardy is Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at The Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. He previously taught at the University of Washington, where he also served as Director of the Jackson School of International Studies. H. Lyman Miller is a Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution of War, Revolution, and Peace at Stanford University, as well as an Associate Professor of Chinese Studies at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. He previously worked as ananslyst at the Foreign Broadcast information Service and tautght for many years at Johns Hopkins University Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C. Dorothy Solinger is Professor of Politics and Society at the University of California, Irvine. Martin King Whyte is Professor and Chairman of the Sociology Department at George Washington University.