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This article provides a close reading of a book entitled A Little Bit of Beijing published in 2013, which has been well received by the Chinese public. The book presents detailed and meticulous architectural style diagrams, comic strips and panoramic drawings of three urban districts in Beijing. These visualizations provide evocative depictions of the buildings along with their interior spaces in these urban areas, calling for more attention to the role of 'ordinary' buildings of small shops in understanding these urban neighbourhoods. In this article, I analyse this book project with a focus on its visualizations through two dimensions: understanding the urban conditions that shape and are visualized by these visualizations and understanding the visualizations as a form of mapping. For the first dimension, I argue that the urban conditions underpinning, and depicted by, A Little Bit of Beijing resonate with the notion of 'messy urbanism'. For the second dimension, I contend that A Little Bit of Beijing constitutes a form of slow mapping. Viewed from these two dimensions, these visualizations show subversive possibilities in addressing urban transformation issues in China as well as questioning the more conventional ways of mapping urban spaces.

Abstract
Although anti-Chinese riots are rare in Cambodia, the ethnic Chinese in Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge era experienced some of the most severe repression in the world. The situation had improved by the 1990s, following the Hun Sen government's abolishment of discriminatory policies towards them. The positive opinion of the Cambodian-Chinese was given another boost when Chinese capital flooded into the country. Keeping a low profile in politics and contributing to the national economy through their businesses have been the ways in which the ethnic Chinese survived in Cambodia. This does not mean that they have had no interest in politics; rather, they have preferred to engage with it through patron-client relationships with ruling politicians through their businesses. However, as the main stakeholders of the Cambodian political economy and the main pipeline through which Chinese capital flows, the Cambodian-Chinese would be in the firing line should Chinese investment not work out in the long-term.

How might science and technology studies and science, technology and society studies (STS) learn from its studies of other knowledge traditions? This article explores this question by looking at Chinese medicine (CM). The latter has been under pressure from modernization and "scientization" for a century, and the dynamics of these pressures have been explored "symmetrically" within STS and related disciplines. But in this work, CM has been the "the case" and STS theory has held stable. This article uses a CM term, reasoning-as-propensity ( shi, 勢), to look at contemporary practices of cancer care in a hospital in Taiwan. It describes how shi ( 勢) informed the design of a new decoction, Kuan Sin Yin, while also relating to the production of scientific knowledge, biomedical interventions, Buddhist practices, and the patients living with cancer themselves. Does CM's use of shi ( 勢) simply confirm the essential and incompatible otherness of CM? Looked at from outside the answer seems to be yes. However, this article explores how STS might change itself—and the theory–practice division in STS—by thinking through shi ( 勢) in dialogue with its othered object. This opens the possibility of an STS for CM.

Quality of township management is highly related to society, and it reflects the local government situation. However, past research seldom discusses the balanced
scorecard and Importance-performance analysis concepts of townships management, which is a driving factor in the enhancement enterprises and local government performance. This paper proposes the concepts of balanced scored to combine the analysis and integration of township resident surveys for Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) implementation. The implication of the existing perspective on management concept is that performance evaluation systems emerging in profit and non-profit enterprises are going to meet the needs of local governments in terms of townships that citizens' satisfaction in Taiwan.

Quality of township management is highly related to society, and it reflects the local government situation. However, past research seldom discusses the balanced scorecard and Importance performance analysis concepts of townships management, which is a driving factor in the enhancement enterprises and local government performance. This article proposes the concepts of balanced scored, to combine the analysis and integration of township resident surveys for Electronic Toll Collection implementation. The implication of the existing perspective on management concept is that, performance evaluation systems emerging in profit and nonprofit enterprises are going to meet the needs of local governments, in terms of townships that citizens' satisfaction in Taiwan. Adapted from the source document.

How might the agency of the subaltern be conceptualized within the intersection of multiple worlds? Actor-network theory's (ANT) translation framework for understanding agency portraying this as entrepreneur and talking of a world in the making is arguably "imperialist," "managerial," and "monolithic." Draws from the enactment turn of ANT and insights into the politics of representation, this article elaborates an alternative framework which focuses on displacement. By examining the case of dialysis patients, the article explores the displacing practices that follow the disruption of routines in dialysis. Patients have to go through a process of problematization, distribution, hybridization, and restabilization, in order to sustain the coexistence of their alternative practices with dialysis. Unlike entrepreneurs in the translation model who transform the world by interesting others, enduring trials, and becoming spokespersons for all, those patients who manage to displace and sustain the coexistence of multiple worlds avoid interesting, still less confronting, the hegemonic actors and claiming representation for themselves. This article suggests the displacement of agency as a generic alternative.