Contents

Volume 8, Issue 1, August 2008
Special Olympics Issue: Global Cities in the Other East

Introduction to the special issue
Privatization and Potemkinization: Composite Identity Spaces in Contemporary Beijing
Michael Saffle and Hon-Lun Yang
The Remaking of Shanghai Local Spaces
Pan Lu
The Identity-Producing Spaces of Hong Kong: Reflections on Ackbar Abbas’s City of Disappearance
Susan Ingram and Markus Reisenleitner