Introduction: The PLA and contingency planning in China / Phillip C. Saunders
I. Thinking and Planning for Contingencies. The PLA and contingency planning / Mark Cozad
PLA observations of U.S. contingency planning: what has it learned? / Marcelyn L. Thompson
China plans for internal unrest: People's Armed Police and Public Security approaches to "mass incidents" / Jonathan Walton
Civilian authorities and contingency planning in China / Catherine Welch
Converting the potential to the actual: Chinese mobilization policies and planning / Dean Cheng
Employment of national-level PLA assets in a contingency: a cross-Strait conflict as case study / Mark A. Stokes
II. Domestic Contingencies. China's armed forces respond to internal disaster relief: assessing mobilization and effort / Jeffrey Engstrom and Lyle Morris
PLA response to widespread internal unrest in the Han homeland / Ma Chengkun
III. Border Contingencies. The PLA and cross-border contingencies in North Korea and Burma / Thomas Woodrow
PLA contingency planning and the case of India / Larry M. Wortzel
Like a good neighbor: Chinese intervention through the Shanghai Cooperation Organization / Ben Lowsen
IV. Maritime Contingencies. The PLA and near seas maritime sovereignty disputes / Alexander Chieh-cheng Huang
The PLA and far seas contingencies: Chinese capabilities for noncombatant evacuation operations / Michael S. Chase
PLA Navy planning for out of are deployments / Kristen Gunness and Samuel K. Berkowitz.