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Headlines on China’s innovation have been popping up this week, as the world wonders what the next big economic development will be for the country, which recently surpassed Japan for the #2 rank in GDP. Both The Economist and Reuters have run stories taking insight from a new book, The Run of the Red Queen: Government, Innovation, Globalization, and Economic Growth in China, by Dan Breznitz and Michael Murphree, in which they examine the strengths and weaknesses of the Chinese economic system to discover where the nation may be headed and what the Chinese experience reveals about emerging market economies.
Breznitz and Murphree find that in our new world of globally fragmented production China does not need to master breakthrough innovations to achieve success, as popular opinion would have it. Instead, China's development is based on keeping pace with the technological advances of other nations, and mastering subsequent stages of innovation. Significantly, this development path has been drastically different from the plans and ambitions of the Chinese central government, and hence, this growth trajectory was not at all centrally planned. The book systematically tracks and explains this development path and in doing so offers a unique understanding of the Chinese political economy and its structured uncertainty.
Last Thursday during their annual conference, College Art Association (CAA) announced the recipients of their 2011 Awards for Distinction. Among the honorees were three titles published by Yale University Press:
The Charles Rufus Morey Book Award went to Molly Emma Aitken for
The Intelligence of Tradition in Rajput Court Painting, a comprehensive study of Rajput court painting from India's Rajasthani region, providing an innovative look at the overall tradition and its evolution between the 16th and 19th centuries.
The Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Award went to editor Darielle Mason for Kantha: The Embroidered Quilts of Bengal from the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Collection and the Stella Kramrisch Collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Published in association with the 
Philadelphia Museum of Art, these innovative essays by leading scholars explore the domestic, ritual, and historical contexts of kanthas and trace their contemporary reinterpretation as emblems of national identity and significant works of art.
The Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Award for Smaller Museums, Libraries, Collections and Eshibitions was presented to Yasufumi Nakamori for Katsura: Picturing Modernism in Japanese Architecture: Photographs by Ishimoto Yasuhiro, a critical new look at the collaboration between Tange Kenzo and 
Ishimoto Yasuhiro, who originally published Katsura—the most significant photographic book about the relationship of modernity and tradition to postwar Japan—in 1960. YUP is distributing this title for The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Congratulations to the recipients and all the nominees for their excellent contributions to the field!
