In The Latecomer's Rise, Muyang Chen reveals the nature and impact of a rapidly growing form of international lending: Chinese development finance. Over the past few decades, China has become the world's largest provider of bilateral development finance. Through its two national policy banks, the China Development Bank (CDB) and the Export-Import Bank of China (China Exim), it ...(展开全部)

拉娜·弗洛哈尔（Rana Foroohar）：美国财经记者，毕业于美国哥伦比亚大学。曾任《新闻周刊》驻伦敦记者，现在是美国《时代》杂志的商业专栏作家，美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）的全球经济分析师。

拉娜·弗洛哈尔（Rana Foroohar）：美国财经记者，毕业于美国哥伦比亚大学。曾任《新闻周刊》驻伦敦记者，现在是美国《时代》杂志的商业专栏作家，美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）的全球经济分析师。

Why would the removal of authoritarian institutions in some developing countries lead to sustained socio-economic crisis, while others experience explosive growth despite 'persisting' informal, insecure and rent-seeking institutional arrangements? A key to solving this enigma lies in understanding China, a country where the paradoxes of development are highly visible. Peter Ho ...(展开全部)

Why would the removal of authoritarian institutions in some developing countries lead to sustained socio-economic crisis, while others experience explosive growth despite 'persisting' informal, insecure and rent-seeking institutional arrangements? A key to solving this enigma lies in understanding China, a country where the paradoxes of development are highly visible. Peter Ho ...(展开全部)

作者簡介： 詹姆斯．麥唐諾（James Macdonald） 獨立歷史研究者，曾任職於投資銀行，專注於經濟金融政治史，著有《債台高築的自由國家》（A Free Nation Deep in Debt: The Financial Roots of Democracy），分析文章散見於《外交政策》（Foreign Policy）、《金融時報》（Financial Times）、「路透通訊社」（Reuters）等知名媒體，現居英國。 譯者簡介： 洪慧芳 國立台灣大學國際企業學系畢業，美國伊利諾大學香檳分校MBA，曾任職於西門子電訊及花旗銀行，目前為專職譯者。

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)

The rise of major metropolises across China since the 1990s has been a double-edged sword: although big cities function as economic powerhouses, concentrated urban growth can worsen regional inequalities, governance challenges, and social tensions. Wary of these dangers, China’s national leaders have tried to forestall top-heavy urbanization. However, urban and regional develop...(展开全部)

In the context of the recent financial crisis, the extent to which the U.S. economy has become dependent on financial activities has been made abundantly clear. In "Capitalizing on Crisis", Greta Krippner traces the longer-term historical evolution that made the rise of finance possible, arguing that this development rested on a broader transformation of the U.S. economy than i...(展开全部)

In the context of the recent financial crisis, the extent to which the U.S. economy has become dependent on financial activities has been made abundantly clear. In "Capitalizing on Crisis", Greta Krippner traces the longer-term historical evolution that made the rise of finance possible, arguing that this development rested on a broader transformation of the U.S. economy than i...(展开全部)