Dancing in the Park

SINCE moving to Beijing eight months ago, I have noriced countless differences between the culture I grew up with back in England, and the one of the people who surround me now. One of the things that I have particularly no： riced as I have got to know Beijing is the attitude people here have towards exercise. Never before have I seen so many people happy to be keeping fit.     

Anti‐Communism,Communism, and Anti‐Interventionism in Narratives Surrounding the Student Massacre on Tlatelolco Square (Mexico, 1968)

Shortly before the Mexico Olympics, on 2 October 1968, student demonstrators were shot by the military on Tlatelolco Square in Mexico City, thus ending the local student movement and its mass protests. This paper explores the government's use of anti‐communism to ideologically justify this massacre in the context of the Cold War. The student movement was presented as a foreign, communist intervention that threatened Mexico's sovereignty. The paper analyses the weaknesses and contradictions of this official narrative by contrasting public and confidential reports. Finally, the marginal role of communism in the movement and its internal divisions are also outlined.     

Food Import Dependency in Cuba: Still the ‘Achilles’ Heel of the Revolution'?

The ‘Special Period in Peacetime’ plunged Cuba into an austerity programme of great severity. The crisis forced agriculture to shift dramatically from a model based on trade dependency (sugar exports providing most of the foreign currency) to one prioritising food import substitution. This alternative brought about major transformations in the country's agriculture. It revolutionised food production and decentralised land ownership. This article asks whether or not these changes reduced food dependency in Cuba. It provides an updated picture of Cuba's food import dependency, with a particular emphasis on the increased role of small farmers in food production during the 2000s.     

Family Ties

PARENT-CHILD relationships be very similar the world over In general, young children are playful and mischievous andadmire and love their parents; teenagers are angsty and rebellious and think their parents can＇t possibly understand them; and, when these children grow into adults and have children of their own, they begin to see things from their parents＇ perspective.     

Model Students

BRIGHT and early on a Monday morning 1 skip into my classroom and greet my students with I a smile. ＂Good morning class!＂ I say cheerily. ＂And how are you all today？＂