Yang: 718 books
The Mutual Cultivation of Self and Things
A Contemporary Chinese Philosophy of the Meaning of Being
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Yang Guorong is one of the most prominent Chinese philosophers working today and is best known for using the full range of Chinese philosophical resources in connection with the thought of Kant, Hegel, Marx, and Heidegger. In The Mutual Cultivation of Self and Things, Yang grapples with the philosophical...
Electromagnetic Scattering
A Remote Sensing Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
Remote sensing is a fast-growing field with many important applications as demonstrated in the numerous scientific missions of the Earth Observation System (EOS) worldwide. Given the inter-disciplinary nature of remote sensing technologies, the fulfillment of these scientific goals calls for, among...
by Gene Luen Yang, Lark Pien
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Boxers & Saints Boxed Set Edition
One of the greatest comics storytellers alive brings all his formidable talents to bear in this astonishing new work.
In two volumes, Boxers & Saints tells two parallel stories. The first is of Little Bao, a Chinese peasant boy whose village...
Smart People Should Build Things
How to Restore Our Culture of Achievement, Build a Path for Entrepreneurs, and Create New Jobs in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Andrew Yang, the founder of Venture for America, offers a unique solution to our country’s economic and social problems—our smart people should be building things. Smart People Should Build Things offers a stark picture of the current culture and a revolutionary model that will redirect a generation...
by Guobin Yang
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Raised to be "flowers of the nation," the first generation born after the founding of the People's Republic of China was united in its political outlook and at first embraced the Cultural Revolution of 1966, but then split into warring factions. Investigating the causes of this fracture, Guobin Yang...
Tombstone
The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
The much-anticipated definitive account of China's Great Famine
An estimated thirty-six million Chinese men, women, and children starved to death during China's Great Leap Forward in the late 1950s and early '60s. One of the greatest tragedies of the twentieth century, the famine is poorly...
Red Fire
Growing Up During the Chinese Cultural Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2017
In August 1966, a 14-year-old boy in Beijing is thrust into violence and chaos as the Cultural Revolution begins to blaze across China. Fifty years later, ***Red Fire, Growing Up During the Chinese Cultural Revolution,***offers the first intimate account from someone who lived through these events...
Reflections
The Legacy of Lee Kuan Yew
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
Reflections: The Legacy of Lee Kuan Yew is a collection of essays reflecting on Singapore's first Prime Minister, Lee Kuan Yew's immense contribution to nation-building and the idea of development. This includes its various models — from government and statecraft as well as leadership and governance,...
by Gene Luen Yang
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Gene Luen Yang is the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature and is a MacArthur Fellow, a recipient of what's popularly known as the MacArthur "Genius" Grant.
There's something lurking beneath the surface of Stately Academy—literally. In a secret underground classroom...
by Grace F. Yang
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
From communism to democracy, from the sixties to the modern day, from the smallest villages to the largest cities, from film to real life, Its a Long Way from China to Hollywood travels halfway around the world and shares the life story of Grace Yang. In this memoir, Yang narrates the story of her...
by Chen-Ning Yang, Ying-Shih Yu, Gungwu Wang
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
Lee Kuan Yew through the Eyes of Chinese Scholars is a compilation of essays by highly-respected Chinese scholars in which they evaluate the life, work and philosophy of Lee Kuan Yew, founding Prime Minister of Singapore. Presenting a range of views from a uniquely Chinese/Asian perspective, this...
by Leiv Lunde, Jian Yang, Iselin Stensdal
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
Over the last few years Asian governments have taken a stronger approach to the Arctic, culminating with permanent-observer status to the Arctic Council for China, India, Japan, Singapore and South-Korea in May 2013. This groundbreaking book brings together the latest research in emerging Asian interests...
China and East Asia
After the Wall Street Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
This book examines the need for greater East Asian cooperation and the challenges to this grand endeavor. With differing national outlooks, how can East Asia preserve peace, prosperity and stability amidst geopolitical competition? To answer this question, the volume examines the political and economic...
The Third World Where Is It?
Forgotten Corners of the World but We Have Life and Space
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2011
A new civilisation focused on correcting the destructive errors of the present civilisation needs to be cultivated and implemented in the third world. This new civilisation will entail preserving current moral and environmental levels existing in the third world.
Unity Elias Yang, also the...