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Evolution of Power: China's Struggle, Survival, and Success, edited by Xiaobing Li and Xiansheng Tian, brings together scholars from multiple disciplines to provide a comprehensive look at China’s rapid socio-economic transformation and the dramatic changes in its political institution and culture. Investigating subjects such as party history, leadership style, personality, political movements, civil-military relations, intersection of politics and law, and democratization, this volume situates current legitimacy and constitutional debates in the context of both the country’s ideology and traditions and the wider global community. The contributors to this volume clarify key Chinese conceptual frameworks to explain previous subjects that have been confusing or neglected, offering case studies and policy analyses connected with power struggles and political crises in China. A general pattern is introduced and developed to illuminate contemporary problems with government accountability, public opposition, and political transparency. Evolution of Power provides essential scholarship on China’s political development and growth.

While the Chinese urban movement has successfully transferred surplus labor from the countryside to urban industries that urgently require free and cheap labor, numerous problems have arisen as a result of the unprecedented huge-scale process.

Corruption and Anti-Corruption in Modern China collects essays from the scholars in their fields and examines the ongoing corruption in China by addressing this important topic from a historical perspective through a cooperative interdisciplinary research effort among Chinese-American scholars interested in the subject.

There are some serious concerns and critical questions about the on-going minority protesting in China, such as Tibetan monks' self-immolations, Muslims' suicide bombings, and Uyghur large-scale demonstrations.Why are minorities such as the Uyghur dissatisfied, when China is rising as a world power?.

Scope and method of study: Patrick J. Hurley (1883-1963) was President Franklin D. Roosevelt's personal representative and later on the American Ambassador to China during the period of 1944-1945, a time when the United States was trying to unify the Chinese Nationalists and Communists so that China would become an effective fighting ally against Japan and a friendly nation toward the United States after the war. It was also a period when both the Nationalists and the Communists came to the conclusion that they were going to use force instead of negotiations as a means to gain the national power. By using some recently released Chinese documents and other primary and secondary sources, this dissertation tries to examine Hurley's mission to China and find out the reasons why this mission and other American efforts to unify China ended in failure. Findings and conclusions: As the key representative of the United States government and the major source of information for Washington, Hurley played an important role during this period. But due to his ignorance about China, its politics as well as its culture, the nature of the power struggle, and his blind trust in the Soviet promises, he simplified a very complicated problem. By doing so, he miscalculated the situation in China. This led to the failure of his mission and the whole American policy in China. Though Hurley was not the most deciding factor in forming America's policy in that country, his actions in China made an already difficult situation even harder to handle: the Nationalists became more uncompromising and the Communists came faster to the conclusion that the United States was their enemy. Hurley contributed to the tragedy of later confrontation between the United States and China.

Liu, Liyan. Red Genesis: The Hunan First Normal School and the Creation of Chinese Communism, 1903-1921. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2012.

Too often we hear discussions and analyses that focus on the economic development, military threat, environmental pollution, human rights, and political reforms. The attempt at changing the traditional pension system has not been successful either, as the reform's aim was 'not to create an optimal social security system but was to help restructure of the SOE sector instead.' (p.99) Like many other scholars, England agrees that China's current pension system is unsustainable without further reform.