AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPART I THE EARLY DEVELOPMENTChapter 1 The Advent of Public Administration in the United States and ChinaChapter 2 The Orthodox Approach and the Jiangning ExperimentChapter 3 The Lanxi Experimental County and Its Unorthodox PracticesPART II THE BATTLEFRONT ADMINISTRATIVE STATEChapter 4 The Rationality Project Based on IrrationalityChapter 5 The Beauty of Humanistic PoliticsPART III THE FRONTIER OF MODERN CHINESE STATECRAFTChapter 6 Guizhou: The Promised Land for Public Administration?Chapter 7 Eliminating the Brutal and Safeguarding the GoodChapter 8 The Counter-Public Administration InsurgencyConclusionBibliographyIndexAbout the Author