Part I: Early Development

Chapter 1: The Advent of Public Administration in the United States and China

Chapter 2: The Orthodox Approach and the Jiangning Experiment

Chapter 3: The Lanxi Experimental County and Its Unorthodox Practices

Part II: The Battlefront Administrative State

Chapter 4: The Rationality Project Based on Irrationality

Chapter 5: The Beauty of Humanistic Politics

Part III: The Frontier of Modern Chinese Statecraft

Chapter 6: Guizhou: The Promised Land for Public Administration?

Chapter 7: Eliminating the Brutal and Safeguarding the Good

Chapter 8: The Counter-Public Administration Insurgency

This book provides a political history of China's Nationalist government through officials trained at the Central Politics School. The author examines how these officials engaged in such matters as land administrative reform, the challenges of statebuilding during World War II, and rebellions among ethnic minorities.