Ninety-five per cent of the cultivated area of the country lies east of a line drawn from Tsitsihar (Ch'i-ch'i-ha-erh) in northern Manchuria to K'un-ming in Yün-nan Province. This is eastern China, and within it is the Chinese ecumene.

The truth is he knows he will have to spend time with his real woman on V-Day.

The guacamole and queso fundido (melted cheese with a slathering of chorizo sausage on top, spooned onto sections of flour tortilla) are excellent, and two botanas (assortments) offer items like chalupas (small crisp tortillas) not always found on Chicago menus.

Sharryn Kasmir's analysis enables us to penetrate the otherwise paradoxical situation in which cooperators in this putative postclass paradise are beginning to organize syndicates to protect their interests.