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The year 2009 marks the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). On its formation, the PRC leadership sought to achieve a long-held ambition to build a prosperous and strong Chinese state that could command respect and recognition among its international peers. Previous studies on China have generally used the year 1979 as a watershed of its transformation from the Mao era to Deng’s economic reform. This disjuncture between pre-1979 China and post-1979 China has dominated scholarly attention in their analyses of the role of political leadership in social and economic developments in these two separate periods. Examples include Loren Brandt and Thomas Rawski, Kjeld Erik Brodsgaard and Zheng Yongnian, David Goodman, Doug Guthrie, Nicholas Lardy, Li Cheng, Peter Nolan, Czeslaw Tubilewicz, Gordon White, as well as Dali L. Yang and Zhao Litao. There has also been considerable work done by

Chinese Foreign Policy: Sixty Years On Plumbing the Relevance of Independence and Self-RelianceA" in Chinese Foreign Policy, 1949-2009 China at Sixty: Domestic Politics Central-Local Relations: Explaining Trends through Processes China's Macroeconomy: Global-Local Interactions From Mono-Banking to Globalization: The Ordeal of China's Banking Reform The Development of Intellectual Property Law in the People's Republic of China In Search of a Capable Fighting Force: Chinese Military Modernization and Transformation The Power Politics of China's Search for Energy Security: From Pre-Daqing to Post-Daqing Oscillating between Mao and Deng? The Domestic-International Nexus of China's Public Health Reform China's Ethnic Minorities: Global-Local Interactions over 60 Years The Party-State and the Special Position of Women.