This book examines how the Chinese state responds to the increasingly diverse civil society and maintains regime stability in a changing society. In recent years, the Chinese leadership has demonstrated great capability of adapting and developing sophisticated mechanisms of social control. The chapters in this book cover a wide range of these mechanisms, including co-opting social forces, managing population and migration, as well as controlling the media, trade unions, the internet, non-governmental organisations, and the cultural industries. The authors also discuss challenges the government is about to face and possible adjustments. Contents: The State and New Social Forces: The Chinese Leadership and the Internet (LYE Liang Fook and YANG Yi) Managing Social Media in China: A Fresh Campaign Against Internet Celebrities (CHEN Gang) China's Crackdowns on "Internet Rumours" and "Illegal" Internet Publicity Activities (WU Mei) Non-Governmental Organisations and Government in China: Enemies or Allies? (WONG Man Lai, Sonia) The State and Social Reforms: Chinese Trade Unions: Development and Dilemmas (QI Dongtao and HUANG Jingyang) China's Hukou Reform: New Guidelines and Implications (ZHAO Litao) Improving Local Governance without Democratisation: Community-Building in Shanghai (SHI Fayong) China's Initiatives in "Social Management" (SHAN Wei) The State and Institutional Changes: The Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference: Co-opting Social and Political Forces in a One-Party State (YEW Chiew Ping) Cultural Institutional Reform and the Changing Society in China (ZHONG Sheng) Religions and Chinese Socialism: China's Religious Policies Since the 1990s (LAI Hongyi) Readership: Academics, undergraduate and graduate students, professionals, policymakers interested in China's rising civil society, China's state-society relations and governance of rising civil society.