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David Martin Jones examines how China has been portrayed in European and subsequently North American social and political thought and what, if anything, this depiction tells us about the character of this thought. Such a question immediately evokes the spectre of orientalism and subsequent chapters explore whether the identification of an orientalist project invalidates the knowledge claims of European and North American social and political thought as it evolved from the eighteenth to the twentieth century.

POLITICAL PARTICIPATION, MULTI-PARTY POLITICS, AN END TO CORRUPTION, A FREER PRESS, ENIVRONMENTAL CLEAN-UP AND OTHER THINGS AS WELL, CAN BE SEEN EMERGING ON THE EAST ASIAN SCENE. THE INVISIBLE HAND GUIDING THIS CHANGE IS A SELF-CONFIDENT, AND INCREASINGLY ARTICULATE MIDDLE CLASS. THIS ARTICLE EXPLORES THE CHARACTER OF THE NEW BOURGEOISISE, HOW TO MAINTAIN THE BALANCE, AND, THE ASIAN WAY. IT ARGUES THAT THIS CHANGE REPRESENTS THE ANXIOUS AND OFTEN PROACTIVE ATTEMPT BY A VIRTUOUS MANDARINATE TO MAINTAIN HARMONY, BALANCE, AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN A WORLD THAT ALWAYS THREATENS TO DISSOLVE INTO DERACINATING UNCERTAINTY.

The feeding ecology of the cockatiel Nymphicus hollandicus was studied in a grain-growing district near
Moree, in northern New South Wales, between August 1980 and June 1982, by direct observations and
monthly collections of birds in feeding flocks. Cockatiels fed from the ground, on fallen seed or by
felling stems, and, when feeding on sorghum and sunflowers, while perched on the seed heads. The mean
size of a feeding flock was 27; large flocks of more than 100 birds were formed only during periods
of limited food supply. Cockatiels showed a clear preference for sorghum over sunflowers, and when
on cereals they appeared to prefer softer, younger seed to harder, mature seed. Overall they fed on
29 seed types, including four grain-crops, 17 grasses and eight non-grass ground plants. Sorghum was
by far the most important food item, making up almost 60% of total crop contents; sunflower made
up only 6% of crop contents, and grasses 19.3%; 90% of this last was contributed by Phalarisparadoxa
and Setar~a sp. Some management implications, based on apparent food preferences, are discussed.