Introduction / by Theodore Huters --
The 1989 social movement and the historical roots of China's neoliberalism. The historical conditions of the 1989 social movement and the anti-historical explanation of "neoliberalism" --
The three stages of thought in the 1990s and their major problems --
Alternative globalizations and the question of the modern --
Contemporary Chinese thought and the question of modernity (1997).

Analysing the transformations that China has undertaken since 1989, Wang Hui argues that it features elements of the new global order as a whole in which considerations of economic growth and development have trumped every other concern, particularly democracy and social justice