This volume, the second instalment in the Series on Developing China — Translated Research from China, contains a collection of the most outstanding academic articles written by prestigious Chinese scholars of humanities and social sciences in the past three decades. The volume aims to present to international readers a comprehensive discussion on state and civil society, contextualized in the Chinese perspectives.Important questions are posed, within the context of Chinese national conditions, particularities and histories, to the validity, applicability and viability of the state and civil society paradigm in the Western academia. The in-depth analysis of state and civil society, as accomplished in the volume, includes not only theoretical reflections, but also historical studies and empirical examinations. In the past, research done by Chinese scholars has not been adequately represented in English due to the language barrier. This translated volume shall in no small way supplement the global discourse on state and civil society with the voices from within China.Contents:Civil Society in China: A Theoretical Reflection:The Construction of the Chinese Civil Society (Z-L Deng & Y-J Jing)“Civil Society” in Modern China Studies: Methodology and Limitations (N-Q Yang)Civil Society in China: Concepts, Classification and Institutional Environment (K-P Yu)Graduated Control: Research on State-Society Relationship in Contemporary Mainland China (X-G Kang & H Han)Evolution of Interactive Relationships among Chinese State, Civil Ruling Elites and Commoners Before and After the Reform (L-P Sun)Historical Research on Civil Society:“State and Society” in Modern China: Research Review and Reflection (Y Zhu)The Ideas of Civil Society in Mainland China and Taiwan, 1986–92 (B-G He)Public Sphere in Neoteric China: Forms, Functions and Self-Understandings — A Case Study of Shanghai (J-L Xu)Training Ground for Democracy: Associational Life in China (S-G Wang & J-Y He)Chinese Rural Township Government: A Sequence of the Expansive Moments of the State in History (M-M Wang)The Modern Development of Civil Society in China:The Wenzhou Model of China's Civil Society (J Zhou & J-X Yu)Towards a Corporatist Development of Civil Society in China: Enabling State and Mutual Empowerment Between State and Society (E Gu)From Major Community Standard to Civil Society: A Rethinking of Traditional China and Its Modernization (H Qin)Readership: Political scientists, sociologists, advanced undergraduates and graduate students interested in civil society and China studies.