Table of Contents:
  • Foreword: The Final Chapter
  • 1. The Dinner Party: The Revolution Has Grown Old
  • 2. Lake of Gasoline: The Discontent of the People Is Explosive
  • 3. Industrial Theme Parks: State-Owned Enterprises Are Dying
  • 4. future@china.communism: Is the Communist Party Ready for the Internet?
  • 5. Life Everlasting: Industrial Policy Grants Perpetual Existence to the Inept
  • 6. The Banks That Sank: Chinese Banks Will Fail
  • 7. Biting the Snakes: The State Attacks the Private Sector
  • 8. Highway Girls: China's Economy Stagnates
  • 9. Trade Charade: WTO Accession Will Trigger Collapse
  • 10. Sentences Without Verbs: Ideology and Politics Restrain Progress
  • 11. Emerging in the East: Can the Chinese State Evolve?