Jian: 111 books
by Jian Qiu Huang
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011
If you are looking for a literary masterpiece, you may find this book a little simplistic. However, if you are looking to understand the challenges faced by many Asian migrant students in the 70s in Australia, then this book may interest you. Every person has his or her own challenges, and this book...
by Jian-Qiao Sun, Qian Ding
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
Analysis and control of time-delayed systems have been applied in a wide range of applications, ranging from mechanical, control, economic, to biological systems. Over the years, there has been a steady stream of interest in time-delayed dynamic systems, this book takes a snap shot of recent research...
Biophysics and Biochemistry of Protein Aggregation
Experimental and Theoretical Studies on Folding, Misfolding, and Self-Assembly of Amyloidogenic Peptides
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2017
This book reviews current research on the important processes involved in neurodegenerative diseases (e.g. Alzheimer's disease) and the peptides and proteins involved in the amyloidogenic processes. It covers the design and developments of anti-amyloid inhibitors, and gives readers a fundamental understanding...
The Noodle Maker
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2006
From Ma Jian, the highly acclaimed Chinese dissident, comes a satirical novel about the absurdities of life in a post-Tiananmen China.
Two men meet for dinner each week. Over the course of one of these drunken evenings, the writer recounts the stories he would write, had he the courage: a young...
Stick Out Your Tongue
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2007
Tibet is a land lost in the glare of politics and romanticism, and Ma Jian set out to discover its truths. Stick Out Your Tongue is a revelation: a startlingly vivid portrait of Tibet, both enchanting and horrifying, beautiful and violent, seductive and perverse.
In this profound work of fiction,...
by Jian Gao
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
An in-depth look at China’s burgeoning capital markets
Author Jian Gao is the number one authority on fixed income markets in China, and with this book, he brings his considerable experience and knowledge about these markets to investors worldwide. For those interested in becoming active...
The Dark Road
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
From one of world literature’s most courageous voices, a novel about the human cost of China’s one-child policy through the lens of one rural family on the run from its reach
Far away from the Chinese economic miracle, from the bright lights of Beijing and Shanghai, is a vast rural hinterland,...
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...
Red Dust
A Path Through China
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In 1983, at the age of thirty, dissident artist Ma Jian finds himself divorced by his wife, separated from his daughter, betrayed by his girlfriend, facing arrest for “Spiritual Pollution,” and severely disillusioned with the confines of life in Beijing. So with little more than a change of clothes...
Rescuing Jesus
How People of Color, Women, and Queer Christians are Reclaiming Evangelicalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
An inside look at the young, diverse, progressive Christians who are transforming the evangelical movement
Deborah Jian Lee left the evangelical world because she was frustrated by its conservative politics. But over the years she stayed close to those in the movement, and she has come to realize...
Beijing Coma
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2008
Dai Wei has been unconscious for almost a decade. A medical student and a pro-democracy protestor in Tiananmen Square in June 1989, he was struck by a soldier's bullet and fell into a deep coma. As soon as the hospital authorities discovered that he had been an activist, his mother was forced to take...
Ancient Silk Trade Routes
Selected Works from Symposium on Cross Cultural Exchanges and Their Legacies in Asia
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
As key nodes that connected ancient silk routes traversing China, Japan and India, trading hubs, towns and cities in Java and Sumatra and other places in Asia were key destination points for merchants, monks and other itinerants plying these routes.
Recent archaeological excavations in countries...
Solus Jesus
A Theology of Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
If you read one book this year about the future of Christianity, then choose this book. Five hundred years ago the Protestant Reformation claimed the Bible as the authoritative guide for Christian living (“Sola Scriptura!” Only Scripture!). In this groundbreaking work, Emily Swan and Ken Wilson...
by Jian Farhadi, MD, Jaume Masia
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
This issue of Clinics in Plastic Surgery, Guest Edited by Drs. Stefan Hofer, Jian Farhadi and Jaume Masia, is devoted to Contemporary Indications in Breast Reconstruction. Articles in this comprehensive issue include: Modern approaches to surgical management of malignant breast disease and the role...