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Starting with the 2005 Chinese Heritage Centre exhibition 'Chinese More or Less' (for which I wrote the storyboard) - specifically with that part of the exhibition that profiles diasporic Chinese exemplars of different ways of combining cosmopolitanism with Chineseness - this paper attempts to respond to questions raised by Anthony Reid, viz: whether my moving from diaspora to Shanghai comes of 'Shanghai (re)joining the diasporic sense of Chinese modernity and post-modernity'; whether 'the diaspora no longer seems quite so distinctive once China is again an open and cosmopolitan place'; and whether I am still a 'Chinese Overseas' when I live in Shanghai. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper follows up an earlier study, published under the title The Gentlemen's Club, of the system of drug and alcohol control operating through multilateral treaties and United Nations organs. It reviews some changes which have occurred in the period 1973-78 in drug use patterns, illicit trafficking, control machinery, sources of national influence on international policy-making and the approach adopted towards drug abuse. It discusses four major issues in international drug control: the new goal of demand reduction, opium crop substitution projects, channelling development aid into the UN Fund for Drug Abuse Control and the control of psychotropic substances. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]