Part I The Evolution of Contemporary China Studies in the United States; Chapter 1 Introduction, David Shambaugh; Chapter 2 The Evolution of American Scholarship on Contemporary China, Harry Harding; Part II Disciplinary Surveys; Chapter 3 The Study of Chinese Society, Thomas B. Gold; Chapter 4 The Humanities in Contemporary China Studies: An Uncomfortable Tradition, Anthony J. Kane; Chapter 5 The Study of the Chinese Economy, Penelope B. Prime; Chapter 6 Studies of Chinese Politics, Nina P. Halpern; Chapter 7 New Directions in Chinese Security Studies, Robert S. Ross, Paul H.B. Godwin; Part III The American China Studies Community; Chapter 8 The Academic China Specialists, Richard Madsen; Chapter 9 Government China Specialists: Scholar Officials and Official Scholars, ThomasFingar; Chapter 10 The Private Sector China Specialists, Thomas W. Robinson; Chapter 11 The Journalist China Specialists, Jay Mathews, Linda Mathews; Part IV Infrastructure; Chapter 12 Chinese Language Training for New Sinologists, Timothy Light; Chapter 13 Library Resources for Contemporary China Studies, Eugene W.Wu; Chapter 14 Scholarly Exchange and American China Studies, Mary Brown Bullock; Chapter 15 Financing Contemporary China Studies, Terrill E. Lautz; Part V Epilogue; Chapter 16 The American Study of Modern China: Toward the Twenty-first Century, Michel C. Oksenberg;