Based on three years of ethnographic fieldwork in the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone, People's Republic of China, I offer a reading of Reform and Opening (Gaige Kaifang) in terms of how individuals recognized, manipulated, avoided, and responded to the Chinese state apparatus during the Deng...

<DIV>As we approach the end of the century, cultural, institutional, and even geopolitical change becomes the norm rather than the exception. <I>Late Editions</I>, edited by George E. Marcus, is a series of annuals designed to probe these changes not through the familiar academic conventions of analysis but...</i></div>