Social Transition in China brings together the views of eleven Chinese scholars as presented at the International Symposium on Socio-Economic Transition and Cultural Reconstruction in China. These contributors combine first-hand knowledge of China with study in the United States to provide qualified assessments of the social changes brought about in China by the economic reform begun by Deng Xiaoping. They examine the change to a free market, a more democratic government, and the modernization of China through the details of political change, the rural atmosphere, and the attitudes held by the people of contemporary China.

Contributions by: Chen Jiafang, Chen Weixing, Deng Xiagang, Jessie X. Fan, Hong Zhaohui, Li Jian, Li Xiaobing, Liu Guoli, Xiao Jing Jian, Xu Guangqiu, Xu Xiaohe, Xu Yinzhou, Yu Yanmin, Zhang Baohui, Zhang Lening