An analysis of Chinese political culture. It is divided into three major areas: Chinese identities and popular culture (including regional identities); public opinion surveys (the Beijing area, Chinese workers, the Shanghai area); and ideological debates (such as the "new" Confucianism).

Introduction: Some Paradigmatic Issues in the Study of Chinese Political Culture; I: The Chinese Cultural Tradition and Its Modern Face; 1: Sage, Teacher, Businessman: Confucius as a Model Male; 2: The Changing Concept of Zhong (Loyalty): Emerging New Chinese Political Culture; 3: New Confucianism: A Native Response to Western Philosophy; II: Socialization: Official Ideologies, Literature, and the Media; 4: Still Building the Nation: The Causes and Consequences of China's Patriotic Fervor; 5: Curing the Sickness and Saving the Party: Neo-Maoism and Neo-Conservatism in the 1990s; 6: The Antipolitical Tendency in Contemporary Chinese Political Thinking; 7: Political Culture as Social Construction of Reality: A Case Study of Hong Kong's Images in Mainland China; III: Comparative Political Culture Studies: Social Strata and Regions; 8: Diversification of Chinese Entrepreneurs and Cultural Pluralism in the Reform Era; 9: Provincial Identities and Political Cultures: Modernism, Traditionalism, Parochialism, and Separatism; 10: Political Culture of Election in Taiwanese and Chinese Minority Areas; 11: Religion and Society in China and Taiwan; 12: Culture Shift and Regime Legitimacy: Comparing Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong