Medical care in nineteenth-century China was spectacularly pluralistic: herbalists, shamans, bone-setters, midwives, priests, and a few medical missionaries from the West all competed for patients. This book examines the received dichotomies between "Western" and "Chinese" medic…
China's economic growth is sputtering, the Euro is under threat, and the United States is combating serious trade disadvantages. Another Great Depression? Not quite. Noted economist and China expert Michael Pettis argues instead that we are undergoing a critical rebalancing of t…
Demonstrates that finance is the driveshaft that links inequality to economic instability.
Drawing on the expertise of Chinese and Western academics and practitioners, the contributors to this volume aim to advance the understanding of philanthropy for health in China in the 20th century and to identify future challenges and opportunities. Considering government, NGO …
In Trust, a sweeping assessment of the emerging global economic order "after History," Fukuyama examines a wide range of national cultures in order to divine the hidden principles that make a good and prosperous society, and his findings strongly challenge the orthodoxies of bot…
"Farm and business lobby groups played a vital role in the erosion of the American-led trade embargo against China from 1949 to 1979. In this comprehensive study, based on recently declassified primary source material, trade negotiations and agreements are examined and a detaile…
SCOTT (copy 1): from the John Holmes Library collection.
