1. Fifteen years of reform after thirty years of utopian socialism.
2. The population explosion: an intractable problem.
3. The economic consequences of changing political tides.
4. Obstacles to reform in China's planned economy.
5. The irreversible transformation from a planned to a market economy.
6. Economic momentum shifts to the nonstate sector.
7. Wage reform and the rise of China's power elite.
8. National and per capita income.
9. The never-ending struggle to feed 1.2 billion people.
10. The new focus on tertiary industry.
11. Accumulating deficits and central-regional competition for financial resources.
12. Inflation: threat to reform and social stability.
13. The energy constraint.
14. Warnings of an ecological crisis.
15. Balance of payments and foreign trade.
16. Japan-China economic relations post-1972.
17. Opening the coastal region: achievements and regional disparities.
18. The surge in regional liberalization.
19. Managing growth and reform in 1993: transition to the post-Deng era.
20. China's prospects and U.S.-China relations.
21. Charting China's development to the year 2000.
22. Chronology: evolution of the reform and liberalization policy (1978-1993).
