In Political Regime of Contemporary China, Hongwei Zhao presents a theoretical frame of the multi-layered centralized regime that expounds and proves the modern Chinese political regime in various aspects. Zhao examines the changing process of the political regime from its origin, to its incarnation in the Kingdom Era, to what it is today. The power structure, the policy making process and its implementation throughout the nation and the society, and the mechanism of the political regime alteration are also closely studied. Political Regime of Contemporary China is the only comprehensive academic work on modern Chinese political regime since J. Townsend's Politics in China.