Part I. The new criticism / Wang Hui --
For a Chinese liberalism / Zhu Xueqin --
Scholarship, ideas, politics / Chen Pingyuan --
Dividing the big family assets / Qin Hui--
Part II. A listing social structure / He Qinglian --
From status to contract? / Wang Yi --
The crisis in the countryside / Li Changping --
Equity and efficiency / Hu Angang --
Part III. Industrializing education? / Xiao Xuehui --
Tales of gender / Wang Anyi --
The citizen and the constitution / Gan Yang --
A manifesto for cultural studies / Wang Xiaoming --
Refusing to forget / Qian Liqun --
Part IV. A dialogue on the future of China / Wang Dan, Li Minqi, Wang Chaohua.

Among the topics celebrated on these pages are the future of China's growth model ; the deepening crisis on the land ; the country's emerging class structure and the fate of its workers ; its commercial & high culture and the interactions between them ; the role of social movements and the aftermath of the late eighties ; the prospects of a democratic constitution and the direction of China's educational policy