1. Exhausting Stalinism: The Chinese Military-Industrial Complex's Transition from High-Volume Throughput to Lean Production • Yuting Chen, University of Chicago.

2. Reworking Marxism: The Making of the National Economy in 1980s China • Bowen Li, Northwestern University.

3. China’s New Deal: The Emergence of a New Economic Statism in the Transitional 1990s • Mingtang Liu, Johns Hopkins University.