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RIGHTS HELDAUTHOR Elhanen Helpman TITLE Understanding Global Trade CATEGORY economics academic trade NUMBER OF PAGES 236 22 graphs, 9 tables PUBLICATION MONTH April AUTHOR BIO Elhanen Helpman was born in 1946 in the former UUSR. Educated at Tel Aviv University and Harvard University he is now Galen L. Stone Professor of International Trade at Harvard. He is the author of a number of books including The Mystery of Economic Growth published by HUP in 2004 and translated into simplified character Chinese, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Spanish and Swedish. BOOK DESCRIPTION Describes developments in the theory and empirical analysis of international trade and foreign direct investment during the last two centuries, with an emphasis on the most recent decades to provide a nontechnical overview of these developments, including interpretations and assessments of the research results. To understand globalization, one needs first to understand what shapes international trade and the organization of production across national boundaries. The scholarly literature on this subject - which has evolved over the last two centuries - is huge and most of it is too technical for non-experts to understand. This book is meant to help policy makers, political and other social scientists, as well as general interested readers develop an understanding of these issues. RIGHTS HELDAll rights in all languages AUTHOR Andrew Jones TITLE Developmental Fairytales Evolutionary Thinking and Modern Chinese Culture CATEGORY asian studies monograph NUMBER OF PAGES 260 21 halftones PUBLICATION MONTH May AUTHOR BIO Andrew Jones was born in New York in 1969. Educated at Harvard and UC Berkeley, he is now Professor of Chinese at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the co-editor or translator of a number of books and the author of Yellow Music published by Duke University Press in 2001. BOOK DESCRIPTION Traces the lineage of evolutionary thinking in Chinese letters and its pervasive influence on Republican-era Chinese culture. Development has become the singular creed of post-socialist China, an imperative that has conjured vast new cities seemingly from thin air, fueled unprecedented economic transformation, authorized staggering social upheavals, created new forms of wealth and poverty, and underwritten massive environmental destruction. Developmental Fairytales traces the origins of these developmentalist passions to the late 19th and early 20th centuries, arguing that Chinese intellectuals found in evolutionary theory a compelling — if ultimately unsatisfactory — figure for China’s struggle for survival in the modern world-system. With the translation of evolutionary biology into Chinese, Lamarck, Darwin, and Spencer provided not only insight into natural history, but also a new mode of narrating modernity as a story about development. The book documents the way in which evolutionary narrative became a form of vernacular knowledge, leaving an indelible imprint on its modern literature, and shaping the contours of its culture and popular media, from pedagogical literature to print media, and from fairytales to film-making. Jones provides an innovative and interdisciplinary angle of vision on the work of China’s foremost modern writer and radical public intellectual, Lu Xun, in whose work the fierce contradictions of his generation’s developmentalist aspirations become the stuff of self-reflexive modernist parable. From late 19th century novels of evolutionary adventure to Chinese translations of the phantasmic fables of the blind Russian anarchist Eroshenko, from textbooks to the travelling circuses and cinematic spectacles of interwar Shanghai, this book revises our understanding of the ‘development’ of modern Chinese literature, and the making of China as a modern nation in a colonial world-order. RIGHTS HELDAll rights in all languages AUTHOR Artemy Kalinovsky TITLE A Long Goodbye The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan CATEGORY history trade NUMBER OF PAGES 290 10 halftones, 3 maps PUBLICATION MONTH May AUTHOR BIO Artemy Kalinovsky was born in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1983. Educated at George Washington University and the London School of Economics, he is now a Fellow in Diplomacy and Strategy at the London School of Economics. This is his first book. BOOK DESCRIPTION Looking at the Soviet Union’s dilemma in ending its war in Afghanistan in the 1980s, Kalinovsky overturns many of the standard views of the war, showing how Moscow tried to end Soviet involvement, but repeatedly held off out of concerns about instability in Afghanistan if the army withdrew. A Long Goodbye examines the political struggles behind the decision to withdraw within the Politburo and other institutions involved in the foreign policy process in the Soviet Union, including the military and the KGB. In seeking to understand why certain policies triumphed over others and why key decisions were made (or delayed), this book analyzes the impact of ideology, political legacy, patron-client relations, superpower diplomacy, and bureaucratic politics on decision making during the Afghan war. This book traces the politics and diplomacy of the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan. In addition to providing a detailed study of an important and often-misinterpreted conflict, the book also situates the Soviet intervention within the growing body of scholarship seeking to understand the Cold War in global context, particularly with regard to the Third World. Thus A Long Goodbye focuses on the broader international dimensions of Soviet efforts in Afghanistan, particularly the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union, while also showing that communist leaders in Afghanistan were often able to manipulate Soviet decision-making in support of their own internal rivalries. 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