1. Editor’s note

   EditorialNotes Pages: i - i

2. Political legitimacy and china’s transition

   • Baogang Guo

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 25

3. Max weber and China’s transition under the new leadership

   • Chenshan Tian

   OriginalPaper Pages: 27 - 46

4. Leadership change, legitimacy, and party transition in China

   • Shiping Zheng

   OriginalPaper Pages: 47 - 63

5. Elite politics and the fourth generation of chinese leadership

   • Zheng Yongnian
   • Lye Liang Fook

   OriginalPaper Pages: 65 - 86

6. Middle class: Friends or foes to Beijing’s new leadership

   • He Li

   OriginalPaper Pages: 87 - 100

7. Leadership transition and Chinese foreign polic

   • Guoli Liu

   OriginalPaper Pages: 101 - 117

8. Book Reviews

   • Peter R. Moody
   • Joseph Yu-Shek Cheng
   • Andrew J. Waskey

   BookReview Pages: 119 - 129