Wu: 544 books
The Double Screen
Medium and Representation in Chinese Painting
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 1996
This book contemplates a large problem: what is a traditional Chinese painting? Wu Hung answers this question through a comprehensive analysis of the screen, a major format and a popular pictorial motif in traditional China. With a broad array of examples ranging from the early centuries C.E. to...
A Story of Ruins
Presence and Absence in Chinese Art and Visual Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
This richly illustrated book examines the changing significance of ruins as vehicles for cultural memory in Chinese art and visual culture from ancient times to the present. The story of ruins in China is different from but connected to “ruin culture” in the West. This book explores indigenous...
by Xinyuan Wu, Xiong You, Bin Wang
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2013
Structure-Preserving Algorithms for Oscillatory Differential Equations describes a large number of highly effective and efficient structure-preserving algorithms for second-order oscillatory differential equations by using theoretical analysis and numerical validation. Structure-preserving algorithms...
Healthy Learners
A Whole Child Approach to Reducing Disparities in Early Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The early childhood field has long understood that targeting the intersection of health and learning is integral to serving children, especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds. Yet this developmentally informed educational philosophy has been jeopardized by an increased emphasis on standards-based...
Vital Breath of the Dao
Chinese Shamanic Tiger Qigong - Laohu Gong
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
Vital Breath of the Dao is a fully illustrated guide to the historical background, practical application, underlying principles and techniques of Qigong, a way of physical and spiritual cultivation, and a way of life. Chinese Shamanic Tiger Qigong is a uniquely potent practice designed to bolster...
Mission through Diaspora
The Case of the Chinese Church in the USA
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
The Chinese diaspora is well known for transnational economic activity, but less so for the impact of the diasporic Chinese church in the USA and elsewhere in the world. Surveying 652 US Chinese churches about their mission activities, along with interviews of a sub-set of respondents, Dr Wu provides...
by Wayne Wu
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Attention is a fundamental feature of the mind yet has languished in the backwaters of philosophy. Recent years, however, have witnessed a resurgence of philosophical interest in attention, driven by recognition that it is closely connected to consciousness, perception, agency, thought, justification...
Inorganic Two-dimensional Nanomaterials
Fundamental Understanding, Characterizations and Energy Applications
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
Inorganic 2D nanomaterials, or inorganic graphene analogues, are gaining great attention due to their unique properties and potential energy applications. They contain ultrathin nanosheet morphology with one-dimensional confinement, but unlike pure carbon graphene, inorganic two-dimensional nanomaterials...
Empires of Coal
Fueling China’s Entry into the Modern World Order, 1860-1920
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
From 1868–1872, German geologist Ferdinand von Richthofen went on an expedition to China. His reports on what he found there would transform Western interest in China from the land of porcelain and tea to a repository of immense coal reserves. By the 1890s, European and American powers and the Qing...
by Rucong Yu, Tianjun Zhou, Tongwen Wu
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
This book is based on the project “Development and Validation of High Resolution Climate System Models” with the support of the National Key Basic Research Project under grant No. 2010CB951900. It demonstrates the major advances in the development of new, dynamical Atmospheric General Circulation...
Suicide and Justice
A Chinese Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Sociological and psychiatric studies on suicide based on Western ideas about human nature see suicide as social or individual disorder. Suicide in China, however, should be understood differently.
By analyzing 30 cases, Wu Fei studies the dynamics of suicide in terms of family politics and...
by Theresa S. Wu, MD
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
The second part of Dr. Wu's Ultrasound edition has more topics covered by an expert panel of authors. Topics discussed include ocular ultrasound, basic procedures, musculoskeletal, deep vein thrombosis, advanced procedures, and OB/GYN!
The 12 Chinese Animals
Create Harmony in your Daily Life through Ancient Chinese Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
* Silver Medal Winner in the 2010 BOTYA Awards Body, Mind and Spirit Category *
The Chinese horoscope holds the key to a better understanding of self and others, and to living a life of harmony.
Not just the year of birth, but also the month, day and hour have significance in true Chinese...
I Ching Life
Becoming Your Authentic Self
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2005
An insightful and empowering book that shows how to apply the unerring guidance of the I Ching to make decisions that are right for you, protect yourself from danger, and attain success in all areas of life. Living in harmony with the ways of the Universe allows you to naturally express your authentic...