... pleasures work on the dispositions of power in public. Copyright 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 consumer democracies The Park Pass: Peopling and Civilizing a New Old Beijing...

... that the speaker doesn’t care whether the unborn child is a boy or a girl so long as it is physically normal. Its author, Ototake Hirotada, is a twenty-three- year-old student at a prestigious private university in Tokyo. He seems to have been blessed with extraordinary parents, physical strength, and an exu...

...David Novak A new world of music has recently taken the North American experimental music scene by storm. In the late 2000s, a wave of labels like Sublime Frequencies and Parallel World and MP3 blogs like Awesome Tapes from Africa redistributed regional popular music recordings as “new old” media...

...Andrea Muehlebach The contemporary situation is seldom best characterized as a battlefield with clearly drawn political dividing lines. In fact, neoliberalism is often better understood as a form to contain the oppositional—old leftist solidarity and new rightist utopias—and fold them into a single...

...S. D. Chrostowska This short essay considers the increasingly nostalgic life of physical books. From immaculate leather-bound collections to “dummy” libraries, in private homes or department stores, since at least the mid-nineteenth century, old books have enjoyed past-directed affective...

...Mingwei Huang Abstract This article tells a story about the unfolding “Chinese Century” in South Africa centered on China Malls, wholesale shopping centers for Chinese goods that have cropped up along Johannesburg's old mining belt since the early 2000s. Based in ethnographic and historical...

... zoning of a new Shanghai across the river from the old. From flagging rural hinterland to muscled global city, Pudong would over the span of just one decade leave behind its country life to become a working model of advanced socialist architecture, one that would put Shanghai back on track...

... the outbreak of armed conflict in the former Yugoslavia, the Old City of Dubrovnik received an average of 10 million tourists a year. A prosperous region with one of the highest standards of living in Eastern Europe, Croatia generated $3.5 to $4 billion annually in tourist revenue, with a substantial portion...

... back long before apartheid. The building is the new Constitutional Court, and it is being erected on the site of the Old Fort, Johannesburg’s notorious prison complex. On this 95,000-square-meter site, the municipal and provincial governments are developing a major urban regeneration project...

... his classmates turned him in for drawing pictures of weapons. The 11-year-old fifth grader was not charged with a crime in the Wednesday incident. His name is not being released to protect him, school officials said. “There were...

... ( World Daily News ), August 9. Wang , Yeujin . 1988 . “The Old Well: A Womb or Tomb? The Double Perspective in Wu Tianming's ‘Old Well.’” Framework 35 , pp. 73 –82. Wang , Yeujin . 1991 . “Red Sorghum: Mixing Memory and Desire.” Pages 80–103 in Perspectives on Chinese Cinema...

... and Fadhel Jaibi is a modern Jilm noir about an aging man, Si Abbes, who gives an “antique diamond bracelet to a young woman, Kinza. It turns out that the bracelet does not belong to Si Abbes and that it is wanted by a group of thugs including his own illegitimate son and an old girlfriend from...