Introduction / William C. Kirby
The moral autonomy of the individual in Confucian tradition / Irene Bloom
Chinese law and liberty in comparative historical perspective / William C. Jones
Economic greedom in late imperial China / Madeleine Zelin
Rights, freedoms, and customs in the making of Chinese civil law, 1900-1936 / Jérôme Bourgon
The Chinese party-state under dictatorship and democracy on the mainland and on Taiwan / William C. Kirby
Workers' patrols in the Chinese revolution: a case of institutional inversion / Elizabeth J. Perry
Discourses of dissent in post-imperial China / Wen-Hsin Yeh
The Stalinization of the People's Republic of China / Arlen Meliksetov, Alexander Pantsov
Have you eaten? Have you divorced? Debating the meaning of freedom in marriage in China / William P. Alford, Yuanyuan Shen
Realms of freedom in post-Mao China / Jean C. Oi
Worship, teachings, and state power in China and Taiwan / Robert P. Weller.