Current accounts of China’s global rise emphasize economics and politics, largely neglecting the cultivation of China’s people. Susan Greenhalgh, one of the foremost authorities on China’s one-child policy, places the governance of population squarely at the heart of China’s ascent. Focusing on the decade since 2000, and especially 2004–09, she argues that the vital politics of...(展开全部)

Despite continuing criticism of the Chinese authoritarian political system, the range of participants in the decision-making process has widened, with different social actors now playing an increasingly important role in the Chinese policymaking process. Accordingly, the role of think tanks in the policymaking process has generated great interest within and outside China. This ...(展开全部)

Despite continuing criticism of the Chinese authoritarian political system, the range of participants in the decision-making process has widened, with different social actors now playing an increasingly important role in the Chinese policymaking process. Accordingly, the role of think tanks in the policymaking process has generated great interest within and outside China. This ...(展开全部)

A riveting study of the booming rosewood trade between China and Madagascar uncovers an alternative approach to environmentalism that disrupts Western models. Rosewood is the world’s most trafficked endangered species by value, accounting for larger outlays than ivory, rhino horn, and big cats put together. Nearly all rosewood logs are sent to China, fueling a $26 billion marke...(展开全部)

阿尔弗雷德•W.麦考伊（Alfred W. McCoy），美国知名历史学家。生于1945年，1977年毕业于耶鲁大学，获历史学博士学位。现为威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校历史学教授。2012年，耶鲁大学和耶鲁大学研究生院校友会联合授予麦考伊教授“威尔伯•克劳斯勋章”（Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal），表彰他“是研究东南亚历史的世界顶级历史学家，是研究菲律宾政治史、金三角毒品非法交易、地下犯罪集团和国际政治监控的专家”。著有《东南亚的海洛因政治》（The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia, 1972）、《对刑讯的质疑：中情局从冷战到反恐战争以来的审讯》（A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on T...(展开全部)

阿尔弗雷德•W.麦考伊（Alfred W. McCoy），美国知名历史学家。生于1945年，1977年毕业于耶鲁大学，获历史学博士学位。现为威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校历史学教授。2012年，耶鲁大学和耶鲁大学研究生院校友会联合授予麦考伊教授“威尔伯•克劳斯勋章”（Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal），表彰他“是研究东南亚历史的世界顶级历史学家，是研究菲律宾政治史、金三角毒品非法交易、地下犯罪集团和国际政治监控的专家”。著有《东南亚的海洛因政治》（The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia, 1972）、《对刑讯的质疑：中情局从冷战到反恐战争以来的审讯》（A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on T...(展开全部)

阿尔弗雷德•W.麦考伊（Alfred W. McCoy），美国知名历史学家。生于1945年，1977年毕业于耶鲁大学，获历史学博士学位。现为威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校历史学教授。2012年，耶鲁大学和耶鲁大学研究生院校友会联合授予麦考伊教授“威尔伯•克劳斯勋章”（Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal），表彰他“是研究东南亚历史的世界顶级历史学家，是研究菲律宾政治史、金三角毒品非法交易、地下犯罪集团和国际政治监控的专家”。著有《东南亚的海洛因政治》（The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia, 1972）、《对刑讯的质疑：中情局从冷战到反恐战争以来的审讯》（A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on T...(展开全部)

From the beginning, abstraction has been intrinsic to photography, and its persistent popularity reveals much about the medium. The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography is the first book in English to document this phenomenon and to put it into historical context, while also examining the diverse approaches thriving within contemporary photography. Author Lyle...(展开全部)