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2019 documentary film by Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert

《白银资本:重视经济全球化中的东方》是一部极具挑战性的重要著作。它对1500年以来世界各地之间的经济联系作了一个气势恢宏的论述。作者安德烈·贡德·弗兰克把中国置于亚洲的中心，把亚洲置于全球经济的中心。他认为，中国需求白银，欧洲需求中国商品，这二者的结合导致了全世界的商业扩张。与学术界多数人的通常看法不同，在他的分析中，中国在工业革命前的经济史中占据着极其突出和积极的地位。为了阐述他的观点，他广泛利用了其他学者的研究成果，包括研究亚洲和欧洲经济史的专家的最新成果。 西方最初在亚洲经济列车上买了一个三等厢座位，然后包租了整整一个车厢，只是到19世纪才设法取代了亚洲在火车头的位置。名副其实贫穷可怜的欧洲人怎么能买得起亚洲经济列车上哪怕是三等车厢的车票呢？欧洲人想法找到了钱，或者是偷窃，或者是勒索，或者是挣到了钱。

How can America's information technology (IT) industry predict serious labor shortages while at the same time laying off tens of thousands of employees annually? The answer is the industry's flexible labor management system - a flexibility widely regarded as the modus operandi of global capitalism today. "Global "Body Shopping"" explores how flexibility and uncertainty in the IT labor market are constructed and sustained through concrete human actions. Drawing on in-depth field research in southern India and in Australia, and folding an ethnography into a political economy examination, Xiang Biao offers a richly detailed analysis of the India-based global labor management practice known as "body shopping."In this practice, a group of consultants - body shops - in different countries works together to recruit IT workers. Body shops then farm out workers to clients as project-based labor; and upon a project's completion they either place the workers with a different client or "bench" them to await the next placement. Thus, labor is managed globally to serve volatile capital movement. Underpinning this practice are unequal socioeconomic relations on multiple levels. While wealth in the New Economy is created in an increasingly abstract manner, everyday realities - stock markets in New York, benched IT workers in Sydney, dowries in Hyderabad, and women and children in Indian villages - sustain this flexibility.

How do the one percent hold on to their wealth? And how do they keep getting richer, despite financial crises and the myriad of taxes on income, capital gains, and inheritance? Capital without Borders takes a novel approach to these questions by looking at professionals who specialize in protecting the fortunes of the world’s richest people: wealth managers. Brooke Harrington spent nearly eight years studying this little-known group—including two years training to become a wealth manager herself. She then “followed the money” to the eighteen most popular tax havens in the world, interviewing practitioners to understand how they helped their high-net-worth clients avoid taxes, creditors, and disgruntled heirs—all while staying just within the letter of the law. Capital without Borders reveals how wealth managers use offshore banks, shell corporations, and trusts to shield billions in private wealth not only from taxation but from all manner of legal obligations. And it shows how practitioners justify their work, despite evidence that it erodes government authority and contributes to global inequality. Harrington’s research offers the first glimpse into the tactics and mentality of a secretive profession that controls astonishingly large flows of capital around the world. Based on sixty-five practitioner interviews—conducted in the traditional financial centers of Europe and the Americas as well as the up-and-coming tax havens of Africa, Asia, and the South Pacific—Capital without Borders gives voice for the first time to an elite that has worked quietly and unobtrusively to enrich the one percent.

We live in a world where seemingly everything can be measured. We rely on indicators to translate social phenomena into simple, quantified terms, which in turn can be used to guide individuals, organizations, and governments in establishing policy. Yet counting things requires finding a way to make them comparable. And in the process of translating the confusion of social life into neat categories, we inevitably strip it of context and meaning—and risk hiding or distorting as much as we reveal. With The Seductions of Quantification, leading legal anthropologist Sally Engle Merry investigates the techniques by which information is gathered and analyzed in the production of global indicators on human rights, gender violence, and sex trafficking. Although such numbers convey an aura of objective truth and scientific validity, Merry argues persuasively that measurement systems constitute a form of power by incorporating theories about social change in their design but rarely explicitly acknowledging them. For instance, the US State Department’s Trafficking in Persons Report, which ranks countries in terms of their compliance with antitrafficking activities, assumes that prosecuting traffickers as criminals is an effective corrective strategy—overlooking cultures where women and children are frequently sold by their own families. As Merry shows, indicators are indeed seductive in their promise of providing concrete knowledge about how the world works, but they are implemented most successfully when paired with context-rich qualitative accounts grounded in local knowledge.

The origins of nationalism and anti-globalization are traced by the bestselling author of Imagined Communities. In this sparkling new work, Benedict Anderson provides a radical recasting of themes from Imagined Communities, his classic book on nationalism, through an exploration of fin-de-siècle politics and culture that spans the Caribbean, Imperial Europe and the South China Sea. A jewelled pomegranate packed with nitroglycerine is primed to blow away Manila's 19th-century colonial elite at the climax of El Filibusterismo, whose author, the great political novelist José Rizal, was executed in 1896 by the Spanis authorities in the Philippines at the age of 35. Anderson explores the impact of avant-garde European literature and politics on Rizal and his contemporary, the pioneering folklorist Isabelo de los Reyes, who was imprisoned in Manila after the violent uprisings of 1896 and later incarcerated, together with Catalan anarchists, in the prison fortress of Montjuich in Barcelona. On his return to the Philippines, by now under American occupation, Isabelo formed the first militant trade unions under the influence of Malatesta and Bakunin. Anderson considers the complex intellectual interactions of these young Filipinos with the new "science" of anthropology in Germany and Austro-Hungary, and with post-Communard experimentalists in Paris, against a background of militant anarchism in Spain, France, Italy and the Americas, José Marti's armed uprising in Cuba and anti-imperialist protests in China and Japan. In doing so, he depicts the dense intertwining of anarchist internationalism and radical anti-colonialism. Under Three Flags is a brilliantly original work on the explosive history of national independence and global politics.

From the editor of A Country of Refuge comes an anthology of new writing on one of the defining issues of our time. Focusing on the fate of refugee children and young adults, it is aimed at children and adult readers alike, and features work from Michael Morpurgo, Eoin Colfer, Kit de Waal and Simon Armitage among many others. There are tales of home, and missing it; poems about the dangerous journeys undertaken and life in the refugee camps; stories about prejudice, but also stories of children’s fortitude, their dreams and aspirations. A Country to Call Home implores us to build bridges, not walls. It is intended as a reminder of our shared humanity, seeking to challenge the negative narratives that so often cloud our view of these vulnerable young people, and prevent us giving them the empathy they deserve. The book will include newly commissioned stories, flash fiction, poetry and original artwork from some of our finest children’s writers: David Almond, Chris Riddell, Moniza Alvi, Sita Brahmachari, Peter Kalu, Judith Kerr, Patrice Lawrence, Anna Perera, the late Christine Pullein-Thompson, Bali Rai and S. F. Said.

了解近代中英政治文化互動的濃縮之作 中國的崛起，會改變長時期由西方工業和民主國家建立起來的國際體系嗎？ 儒家傳統蘊含可以與現代世界的人類普世價值相融通的道德前景嗎？ 崛起的中國，能夠引領中華文明的更新，以促進國際體系的平等嗎？ 本書根據作者在香港中文大學余英時講座所作的演講修改而成。作者是以海外華人的視角來思考「現代中國國家建構」的過程，視野寬廣而具歷史的深思，討論了中國人關於中國在世界史中的地位的意識，追尋了將中國推向現代全球轉型的特徵，並描繪了中國不得不面對的自身陣痛，說明崛起的中國，應如何引領中華文明更新，在當今聯繫緊密的世界中尋求恰當的定位。 如想從中國傳統根源到追尋路徑來思考中國現代化的過程，這部沉思集是不可失的著作。 本書特色： 1. 作者為著名的歷史學家，在中國歷史、海外華人、民族主義方面均有深厚的研究根底。這本為講稿改寫成的著作，篇幅不長，是為一本了解近代中英政治文化互動的濃縮的歷史課題之作。 2. 專業而又從中國歷史文化本位出發，冷靜客觀分析中國人關於中國在世界史中的地位的意識，並深究了將中國推向現代全球轉型的特徵。 3. 普及的歷史政治學讀物，適合不同年齡層人士閱讀。 4. 此書分別探究中國人自古以來的世界觀、「民族」、「國家主權」、「革命」等概念在中國歷史發展中的演變，並藉此總結中國近百年來如何努力邁向現代化國家，並重建古代文化與現代文明相連之路。

The U.S. military continues to be an overt presence in the Philippines, and a reminder of the country's colonial past. Using Subic Bay (a former U.S. military base, now a Freeport Zone) as a case study, Victoria Reyes argues that its defining feature is its ability to elicit multiple meanings. For some, it is a symbol of imperialism and inequality, while for others, it projects utopian visions of wealth and status. Drawing on archival and ethnographic data, Reyes describes the everyday experiences of people living and working in Subic Bay, and makes a case for critically examining similar spaces across the world. These foreign-controlled, semi-autonomous zones of international exchange are what she calls global borderlands. While they can take many forms, ranging from overseas military bases to tourist resorts, they all have key features in common. This new unit of globalization provides a window into broader economic and political relations, the consequences of legal ambiguity, and the continuously reimagined identities of the people living there. Rejecting colonialism as merely a historical backdrop, Reyes demonstrates how it is omnipresent in our modern world.

The seemingly amorphous phenomenon we call "globalization" involves concrete realities that make it a major source of social change in our contemporary world. Bringing globalization alive for students, this book uses examples and perspectives from economics, technology, and mass media to show how globalization is producing unprecedented impacts on education and culture. Education at all levels-from primary school to university education-is undergoing a world wide transformation of its objectives, values, and practices. New technologies and communication practices have promoted the West's optimism that market forces can replace the former governmental responsibilities for social welfare and the inclusion of diverse cultures. New emphasis on competition, quality control, parental choice, marketing, and the linkage of education to work means that schools all over the world face innovations and challenges to established practices. Meanwhile, the worldwide expansion of entertainment and advertising media convey notions of individualism and consumerism that are changing definitions of gender and solidarity among social groups. This book offers a vivid introduction to these complex changes, recognizing the role of the state while explaining new forces like transnational corporations and nongovernmental organizations. Stromquist points to governmental and school policies that can actively shape the future of education at a time of rapid change.

A provocative account of capitalism's rise to global dominance and, as different models of capitalism vie for world leadership, a look into what the future may hold. We are all capitalists now. For the first time in human history, the globe is dominated by one economic system. In Capitalism, Alone, leading economist Branko Milanovic explains the reasons for this decisive historical shift since the days of feudalism and, later, communism. Surveying the varieties of capitalism, he asks: What are the prospects for a fairer world now that capitalism is the only game in town? His conclusions are sobering, but not fatalistic. Capitalism gets much wrong, but also much right--and it is not going anywhere. Our task is to improve it. Milanovic argues that capitalism has triumphed because it works. It delivers prosperity and gratifies human desires for autonomy. But it comes with a moral price, pushing us to treat material success as the ultimate goal. And it offers no guarantee of stability. In the West, liberal capitalism creaks under the strains of inequality and capitalist excess. That model now fights for hearts and minds with political capitalism, exemplified by China, which many claim is more efficient, but which is more vulnerable to corruption and, when growth is slow, social unrest. As for the economic problems of the Global South, Milanovic offers a creative, if controversial, plan for large-scale migration. Looking to the future, he dismisses prophets who proclaim some single outcome to be inevitable, whether worldwide prosperity or robot-driven mass unemployment. Capitalism is a risky system. But it is a human system. Our choices, and how clearly we see them, will determine how it serves us.

全球化已到盡頭？區域強權將再主導世界？ 民粹主義盛行的當下，人類文明將何去何從？ 當前的全球政治經濟格局，正處於新舊秩序交替的黎明破曉時分。舊的觀念、規範與體制，正出現運作失靈與不勝負荷的疲乏凋零跡象；新的思維、秩序與模式正處於激盪、探索與醞釀階段，尚未破繭而出。全球經濟與人類社會正面臨五個巨大的不確定性： 第一、全球化的前景高度不確定。 第二、二戰後西方主導的國際經濟秩序之前景高度不確定。 第三、中美關係前景高度不確定。 第四、中國在建構後西方世界秩序中的角色與擔當，也存在高度不確定。 第五、對於人類社會如何駕馭科技革命的巨大潛力充滿不確定性。 全球化的下一步是邁向滅亡，還是能進化成不同樣貌？曾經輝煌的西方模式，面對強勢崛起的中國模式，究竟該如何應對？ 中央研究院暨世界科學院院士朱雲漢，繼二○一五年《亞洲週刊》年度十大好書《高思在雲》之後，再次提醒所有讀者：全球化的裂解危在旦夕，國際秩序與人類命運將岌岌可危，唯有徹底理解美中關係與中國的發展道路，方能為全球趨勢的未來走向，理出清晰視野。

Continuing Joel Spring's reportage and analysis of the intersection of global forces and education, this text offers a comprehensive overview and synthesis of current research, theories, and models related to the topic. Spring introduces readers to the processes, institutions, and forces by which schooling has been globalized and examines the impact of these forces on schooling in local contexts. Designed for courses on globalization and education, international and comparative education, educational foundations, multicultural education, and educational policy, the text is written in a clear narrative style to engage readers in thoughtful consideration of topics discussed. Each chapter includes 'Key Points' that summarize the content and suggest issues and questions for critical analysis, discussion, and debate.

A groundbreaking book about how ancient DNA has profoundly changed our understanding of human history. Geneticists like David Reich have made astounding advances in the field of genomics, which is proving to be as important as archeology, linguistics, and written records as a means to understand our ancestry. In Who We Are and How We Got Here, Reich allows readers to discover how the human genome provides not only all the information a human embryo needs to develop but also the hidden story of our species. Reich delves into how the genomic revolution is transforming our understanding of modern humans and how DNA studies reveal deep inequalities among different populations, between the sexes, and among individuals. Provocatively, Reich’s book suggests that there might very well be biological differences among human populations but that these differences are unlikely to conform to common stereotypes. Drawing upon revolutionary findings and unparalleled scientific studies, Who We Are and How We Got Here is a captivating glimpse into humankind—where we came from and what that says about our lives today.

本書首度以考古及文獻資料，重建唐代絲路的風華歲月，讓如今已遭沙塵覆蓋的城鎮，以及曾叱吒一時的部族，再度活躍於我們眼前。本書具有：可信賴、有趣味、富創意、具見地、感人至深等多項特色！對絲路、中國/中亞歷史、旅行文學有興趣者，以及喜歡故事書的讀者一定愛不釋手。