Ying Ying: 181 books
Starting with Max
How a wise stray dog gave me strength and inspiration
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
My dog has demonstrated a grand theory about life's simplest activities. He acts out the meaning of life by actively living it. Do not think so much about yourself, he tells me. Know where you're going, and just get up and go. Be playful and joyous.
Starting a new life in a new city, in a new...
by Ying-Ying Chang
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
The poignant story of the life and death of world-famous author and historian Iris Chang, as told by her mother.
Iris Chang's best-selling book The Rape of Nanking forever changed the way we view the Second World War in Asia. It all began with a photo of a river choked with the bodies of...
Black Country to Red China
One girl's story from war-torn England to Revolutionary China
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
Born in pre-Revolutionary China and brought up in the Midlands, Esther Cheo Ying returned to China in 1949 after a traumatic childhood, convinced that there she would find the happiness and sense of belonging she longed for. Caught up in the turmoil of civil war and sympathetic to the Communist Revolution,...
From Newton, Einstein, to GOD
A Poetic Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
From Newton, Einstein to GOD is a poetic memoir that follows the amazing life of Leong Ying, beginning with his birth into poverty in 1961 in the former British colony of Singapore. After a short time, his family is able to make their way to England. There, as a child with prophetic abilities and...
Chinese History and Culture
Seventeenth Century Through Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
The recipient of the Kluge Prize for lifetime achievement in the humanities and the Tang Prize for "revolutionary research" in Sinology, Ying-shih Yü is a premier scholar of Chinese studies. Chinese History and Culture volumes 1 and 2 bring his extraordinary oeuvre to English-speaking readers....
Chinese History and Culture
Sixth Century B.C.E. to Seventeenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
The recipient of the Kluge Prize for lifetime achievement in the humanities and the Tang Prize for "revolutionary research" in Sinology, Ying-shih Yü is a premier scholar of Chinese studies. Chinese History and Culture volumes 1 and 2 bring his extraordinary oeuvre to English-speaking readers....
by Hong Ying
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 14, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 14, 2015
È l’alba e il battello fende le placide acque del Fiume Azzurro. La rugiada riflette in milioni di gocce la luce di un pallido sole. Mentre le anatre selvatiche si alzano in volo, Hong Ying lascia la sponda del fiume e comincia a correre. Questo è l’ultimo tratto del viaggio che l’ha riportata...
A Banquet for Hungry Ghosts
A Collection of Deliciously Frightening Tales
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
According to Chinese tradition, those who die hungry or unjustly come back to haunt the living. Some are appeased with food, but not all ghosts are successfully mollified. In this chilling collection of stories, Ying Chang Compestine takes readers on an exhilarating journey through time and across...
by Luo Ying
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
At once a work of narrative lyricism and an act of personal courage, this memoir in verse documents the human cost of a period of political turmoil in China’s recent past. Luo Ying—the pen name of Huang Nubo, a celebrated poet, Forbes billionaire, and mountain climber—draws readers into the...
Two Billion Eyes
The Story of China Central Television
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
“The definitive work on Chinese television . . . A pioneering picture of CCTV and its crucial role in the contemporary Chinese political economy” (Robert W. McChesney, author of Corporate Media and the Threat to Democracy).
As China navigates the murky waters of a “third way” with liberal...
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...
Masculinity and the English Working Class
Studies in Victorian Autobiography and Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
This book examines representations of working-class masculine subjectivity in Victorian autobiography and fiction. In it, Ying focuses on ideas of domesticity and the male body and demonstrates that working-class masculinities differ substantially from those of the widely studied upper classes.
The...
Crisis Management and Public Policy
Singapore's Approach to Economic Resilience
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2011
This book is an annual effort by the economists from the Nanyang Technological University to provide analysis, interpretations and insights on contemporary economic issues affecting Singapore.
In 2010, Singapore's economy was just recovering from the sharp economic downturn in 2008/09 caused...
by Ying Lin, Ying Lin
Language: French
Release Date: December 22, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: December 22, 2016
Le 8 aout 1961, la Chine pleura la mort d'un de ses artistes les plus populaires : Mei LanfangLe 8 aout 1961, la Chine pleura la mort d'un de ses artistes les plus populaires : Mei Lanfang. Ce chanteur de l'Opéra de Pékin, qui faisait frémir d'émotion ses diverses audiences lors de ses interprétations...