Exploitation factories: Charles Dickens in Shenzhen -- The race to the bottom -- Chinese nouvelle cuisine: Marxism in a neoliberal sauce -- Beyond the Great Wall -- The neoliberal dream of modernization -- The world is flat -- Financial neoliberalism as predator -- In union there is strength -- From Muhammad to Confucius -- The Great Wall of renewable energy -- Looking at Washington and Beijing through Chinese eyes -- Late imperial spin: Osama Bin Laden as the modern Attila -- Saboteurs of the nation-state -- Supply-side economics -- The full monty -- Mediacracy -- The thousand Evitas of Berlusconi -- Scenes from a marriage -- The last frontier -- Globalization and crime -- Rousseau in Chinese characters.