Today China is a major player in advancing the frontiers of biomedicine, yet previous accounts have examined only whether medical ideas and institutions created in the West were successfully transferred to China. This is the first book to demonstrate the role China played in creating a globalized biomedicine between 1850 and 1950. This was China's ""Century of Humiliation"" whe...(展开全部)

Today China is a major player in advancing the frontiers of biomedicine, yet previous accounts have examined only whether medical ideas and institutions created in the West were successfully transferred to China. This is the first book to demonstrate the role China played in creating a globalized biomedicine between 1850 and 1950. This was China's ""Century of Humiliation"" whe...(展开全部)

One of the core assumptions of recent American foreign policy is that China's post-1978 policy of 'reform and openness' will lead to political liberalization. This book challenges that assumption and the general relationship between economic liberalization and democratization. Moreover, it analyzes the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) liberalization on Chinese labor po...(展开全部)

郑永年(1962- )，浙江省余姚市人。现任新加坡国立大学东亚研究所所长、教授，《国际中国研究杂志》（China：An International Journal）共同主编，罗特里奇出版社（Routledge）“中国政策丛书”（China Policy Series）主编和世界科技书局（World Scientific）“当代中国研究丛书”（Series on Contemporary China）共同主编。 先后获中国北京大学法学学士（1985）、法学硕士（1988），美国普林斯顿大学政治学硕士（1992）、博士（1995）。1995 1997年在美国哈佛大学进行博士后研究。 历任中国北京大学政治与行政管理系助教、讲师，新加坡国立大学东亚研究所研究员、资深研究员，英国诺丁汉大学中国政策研究所教授和研究主任。先后获得美国社会科学研...(展开全部)

The market for financial derivatives is far and away the largest and most powerful market in the world, and it is growing exponentially. In 1970 the yearly valuation of financial derivatives was only a few million dollars. By 1980 the sum had swollen to nearly one hundred million dollars. By 1990 it had climbed to almost one hundred billion dollars, and in 2000 it approached on...(展开全部)

A pervasive force that evades easy analysis, globalization has come to represent the export and import of culture, the speed and intensity of which has increased to unprecedented levels in recent years. "The Cultures of Globalization" presents an international panel of intellectuals who consider the process of globalization as it concerns the transformation of the economic into...(展开全部)

Get a new perspective from the ‘other half’ of macroeconomics The failure of the vast majority of economists in government, academia and the private sector to predict either the post-2008 Great Recession or the degree of its severity has raised serious credibility issues for the profession. The repeated failures of central banks and other policymakers in all advanced countries ...(展开全部)