Wang: 1062 books
The Story of Stone
Intertextuality, Ancient Chinese Stone Lore, and the Stone Symbolism in Dream of the Red Chamber, Water Margin, and The Journey to the West
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 1991
In this pathbreaking study of three of the most familiar texts in the Chinese tradition—all concerning stones endowed with magical properties—Jing Wang develops a monumental reconstruction of ancient Chinese stone lore. Wang’s thorough and systematic comparison of these classic works illuminates...
Song Dynasty Tales
A Guided Reader
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Together with the noted Tang dynasty tales, Song dynasty tales have long been highly valued and widely read in the Chinese world. As the first English translations of a selected collection of 12 Song dynasty tales, this book opens a window into the world of literature, culture, and the colorful lives...
Degrees of Affinity
Studies in Comparative Literature and Translation
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
This book combines two collections of essays written by the late professor Zuoliang Wang, works that explore the affinity between literatures and peoples, with special attention given to that between Chinese literature and western literature in the 20th century, and which underscore the role of translation...
Quantitative Economics in China
A Thirty-Year Review
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the fruitful achievement of China's Quantitative Economics during the past 30 years, assembling pioneering contributions of prominent quantitative economists in China. It chronicles significant events and the detailed evolution of Quantitative Economics...
Het Lelietheater
Een jeugd in China Deel 1
Language: Dutch
Release Date: August 5, 2013
Dit verhaal speelt zich af in de jaren 1971-1974, de periode waarin de Culturele Revolutie haar hoogtepunt beleefde. In een zeer eigen en lyrische stijl beschrijft Lulu Wang deze turbulente wereld gezien vanuit Lian, een meisje van twaalf, dertien jaar. Vol verbazing beziet Lian het gedrag van de...
The Collected Schizophrenias
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
Powerful, affecting essays on mental illness, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and a Whiting Award
An intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with the effects of mental and chronic illness, The Collected Schizophrenias cuts right...
Soundtracks of Asian America
Navigating Race through Musical Performance
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
In Soundtracks of Asian America, Grace Wang explores how Asian Americans use music to construct narratives of self, race, class, and belonging in national and transnational spaces. She highlights how they navigate racialization in different genres by considering the experiences of Asians and Asian...
China's Twentieth Century
Revolution, Retreat and the Road to Equality
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
An examination of the shifts in politics and revolution in China over the last century
What must China do to become truly democratic and equitable? This question animates most progressive debates about this potential superpower, and in China’s Twentieth Century the country’s leading critic,...
Banished to the Great Northern Wilderness
Political Exile and Re-education in Mao’s China
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
After Mao Zedong’s Anti-Rightist Campaign of 1957–58, Chinese intellectuals were subjected to "re-education" by the state. In Banished to the Great Northern Wilderness, Ning Wang draws on labor farm archives, interviews, and memoirs to provide a remarkable look at the suffering and complex psychological...
A Compelling Journey from Peking to Washington
Building a New Life in America
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
The son of a prominent Chinese government official and general and the former schoolmate of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, Chi Wang personally experienced one of the most tumultuous periods in Chinese history, including the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, theJapanese occupation of Hong Kong and mainland...
The Kitchen Shrink
A Psychiatrist's Reflections on Healing in a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2010
The personal story of how a psychiatrist confronts the profound changes sweeping the medical establishment as they reshape her life and career.
In the past two decades, a seismic shift has occurred within the walls of our nation's hospitals and doctor's offices. The medical profession- once...
by Xinyuan Wang
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
‘Life outside the mobile phone is unbearable.’ Lily, 19, factory worker
Described as the biggest migration in human history, an estimated 250 million Chinese people have left their villages in recent decades to live and work in urban areas. Xinyuan Wang spent 15 months living among a community...
Steal This Computer Book 4.0
What They Won't Tell You About the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2006
If you thought hacking was just about mischief-makers hunched over computers in the basement, think again. As seasoned author Wallace Wang explains, hacking can also mean questioning the status quo, looking for your own truths and never accepting at face value anything authorities say or do.
The...
by Shi Wang
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2016
The leadership secrets of the man who built a real estate empire in early modern China
“I believe that studying Vanke’s ability to change is more important than studying the company’s successes. Recognizing the company’s confidence and belief in itself is more important than merely...