Ying Ying Chang: 13 books

Book cover of The Woman Who Could Not Forget: Iris Chang Before and Beyond The Rape of Nanking
by Ying-Ying Chang
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...
Book cover of A Banquet for Hungry Ghosts

A Banquet for Hungry Ghosts

A Collection of Deliciously Frightening Tales

by Ying Chang Compestine
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...
Book cover of The Runaway Rice Cake
by Ying Chang Compestine
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015

It's the Chinese New Year, and the Chang Family has only enough rice flour to make one nián-gão, a special New Year's rice cake, for the entire family to eat. But this delicious little nián-gão has other ideas. "Ai yo! I don't think so!" it cries, coming to life and escaping. Ming, Cong, little...
Book cover of Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party
by Ying Chang Compestine
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009

The summer of 1972, before I turned nine, danger began knocking on doors all over China. Nine-year-old Ling has a very happy life. Her parents are both dedicated surgeons at the best hospital in Wuhan, and her father teaches her English as they listen to Voice of America every evening on the...
Book cover of Secrets of the Terra-Cotta Soldier
by Ying Chang Compestine, Vinson Compestine
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014

  In this action-packed adventure and coming-of-age story that finely weaves fact and fiction, thirteen-year-old Ming lives in a small village in Maoist China in the 1970s. His father is convinced that Emperor Qin’s tomb—and the life-size terra-cotta army created to serve and protect the...
Book cover of The Chinese Emperor's New Clothes
by Ying Chang Compestine
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017

Ming Da is only nine years old when he becomes the emperor of China, and his three advisors take advantage of him by stealing his stores of rice, gold, and precious stones. But Ming Da has a plan. With the help of his tailors, he comes up with a clever idea to outsmart his devious advisors: He asks...
Book cover of The Runaway Wok

The Runaway Wok

A Chinese New Year Tale

by Ying Chang Compestine
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011

When a boy goes to the market to buy food and comes home with an old wok instead, his parents wonder what they'll eat for dinner. But then the wok rolls out of the poor family's house with a skippity-hoppity-ho! and returns from the rich man's home with a feast in tow! With spirited text and lively illustrations, this story reminds readers about the importance of generosity.
Book cover of The Real Story of Stone Soup
by Ying Chang Compestine
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2007

A stingy fisherman always makes his three young helpers do all his work. One day he scolds the “lazy boys” for forgetting to provide lunch. “Don’t worry,” they say. “We can make stone soup.” The boys dig a hole and fill it with water and “flavored” stones. They trick the fisherman...
Book cover of D is for Dragon Dance
by Ying Chang Compestine
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018

A bilingual introduction to the Chinese New Year in English and Chinese. From the dazzling dragon dance to the scrumptious steamed dumplings to the firecrackers that frighten away evil spirits, this alphabet book celebrates the traditions of the lunar new year. First published in 2006, this new rendition presents the English text alongside the Chinese.
Book cover of Spectral Theory of Large Dimensional Random Matrices and Its Applications to Wireless Communications and Finance Statistics
by Zhidong Bai, Zhaoben Fang, Ying-Chang Liang
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014

The book contains three parts: Spectral theory of large dimensional random matrices; Applications to wireless communications; and Applications to finance. In the first part, we introduce some basic theorems of spectral analysis of large dimensional random matrices that are obtained under finite moment...
Book cover of Even Distribution and Spherical Ball-Packing
by Ying-chien Chang
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016

Even Distribution and Spherical Ball-Packing is a book about the continuous uniform distribution or rectangular distribution. A family of symmetric probability distributions such that for each member of the family, all intervals of the same length on the distribution's support are equally probable.
Book cover of Capital Flows, Financial Markets and Banking Crises
by Chia-Ying Chang
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017

The increasing capital flows in the emerging markets and developed countries have raised various concerns worldwide. One main concern is the impact of the sharp decline of capital flows – so-called sudden stops – on financial markets and the stability of banking systems and the economy. The sudden...
Book cover of The Political Economy of New Regionalism in Northeast Asia
by Chang Jae Lee, You-il Lee, John Benson
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018

The book is the first attempt to offer a holistic and integrated exploration of the political-economic framework underpinning economic regionalism. In doing so it provides a much-needed contribution to the literature on international political economy, international relations and Asian political economy...
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