Carnival China China in the Era of Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping

Ch. 1. The context: Governing Chin. China's 17th Party Congress: Getting serious. China's Tiananmen moment: The party rules. China's shadow sector: Power in pieces. China: Inside strain, outside spleen. Chinese democracy: The neglected story. China, the party-state's test -- ch. 2. Society in carnival China: The beautiful, the damned and the Olympics. Shanghai: Formula One's last ride. Beijing's political tightrope walk. China's Olympics: After the storm. China on Olympic eve: A globalisation of sentiment. The Olympics countdown: Beijing to Shanghai. China changes itself: An Olympics report. China's nervous transition. Gan Lulu and China: The human touch -- ch. 3. China and the outside world. Chimerica: Obama visits Beijing. North Korea's fate, Chimerica's test with Jiyoung Song. China and America: The uses of vulnerability. China and Tony Blair: The wealth circuit. China and the Egyptian uprising with Cassidy Hazelbaker. China's elite: A language deficit. China and Syria: A question of responsibility with Cassidy Hazelbaker. China and Japan: A conflict of logics -- ch. 4. The road to 2012: The leadership transition. China's next elite: 2012 and beyond with Loh Su-Hsing. China's great transition: The next party congress. The three rules of Chinese politics. China's party, Bo Xilai's legacy with David Goodman. Chongqing and Bo Xilai: How China works. Bo Xilai's fall: Echo and portent -- ch. 5. The enemies within: Separatists, dissidents, and the protestors. Xinjiang: China's security high alert. Gao Zhisheng and China's question. China and Liu Xiaobo: The weakness of strength. Liu Xiaobo and China's future. Hada, Liu Xiaobo and China's fear with Natalia Lisenkova. Inner Mongolia: China's turbulent secret -- ch. 6. Following the money: The Chinese economy. China goes global. China in 2009: A year for surprise. China's giant struggle. China local, China global -- ch. 7. After Hu Jintao. Chimes at midnight: Corruption and the future of the Communist Party. On networks and the new leadership. Time to accept difference