Xu: 298 books
by Xu Ze, Xu Jie, Bin Wu
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
Immunotherapy has the potential to literally end cancer as we know it, noted Vice President Joe Biden, who came to the Johns Hopkins in late April in 2016. We are excited about cancer immunotherapy is the excellent way to help the cancer patients to live longer and to have better quality of life because...
No Wall Too High
One Man's Daring Escape from Mao's Darkest Prison
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
"A masterpiece." —The Washington Post
"It was impossible. All of China was a prison in those days."
Mao Zedong’s labor reform camps, known as the laogai, were notoriously brutal. Modeled on the Soviet Gulag, they subjected their inmates to backbreaking labor,...
by Guangqiu Xu
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2010
Guangqiu Xu, a native of China fluent in both Mandarin and Cantonese, has written an exhaustive study of United States-China relations during the Cold War, with a special focus on the role of the U.S. Congress in influencing Sino-American policy. Based upon extensive archival research in Chinese and...
Plasma Surface Metallurgy
With Double Glow Discharge Technology—Xu-Tec Process
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to and technical description of a unique patented surface-modification technology: plasma surface metallurgy with double-glow discharge plasma process, known as the Xu-Tec process. As such it promotes further attention and interest in scientific research...
Rethinking China's Rise
A Liberal Critique
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
China's rise to power is the signal event of the twenty-first century, and this volume offers a contemporary view of this nation in ascendancy from the inside. Eight recent essays by Xu Jilin, a popular historian and one of China's most prominent public intellectuals, critique China's rejection of...
Paper Tiger
Inside the Real China
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
In PAPER TIGER the Chinese journalist and intellectual Xu Zhiyuan paints a portrait of the world's second-largest economy via a thoughtful and wide-ranging series of mini essays on contemporary Chinese society.
Xu Zhiyuan describes the many stages upon which China's great transformation is...
Sinascape
Contemporary Chinese Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2006
Sinascape: Contemporary Chinese Cinema is one of the most comprehensive studies of transnational Chinese-language films at the turn of the millennium. Gary Xu combines a close reading of contemporary movies from China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong with an intimate look into the transnational Chinese film...
Chinese Cyber Nationalism
Evolution, Characteristics, and Implications
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2007
Chinese Cyber Nationalism offers the first comprehensive examination of the social and ideological movement that mixes Confucian cultural traditions and advanced media technology. Over the past decade, the Internet has increasingly become a communication center, organizational platform, and channel...
Feathered Serpent
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2009
ONE OF THE FOREMOST WORKS OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY CHINESE LITERATURE
This beautifully portrayed epic family history spans one hundred years, from the 1890s during the later stages of the Qing Dynasty to the 1990s, traversing the experiences of five generations of women. Yu is the central character,...
The Good Child
Moral Development in a Chinese Preschool
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Chinese academic traditions take zuo ren—self-fulfillment in terms of moral cultivation—as the ultimate goal of education. To many in contemporary China, however, the nation seems gripped by moral decay, the result of rapid and profound social change over the course of the twentieth century. Placing...
by John A. Lent, Xu Ying
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
International Convention of Asia Scholars 2019 Book Prize – Best Art Publication
In the most comprehensive and authoritative source on this subject, Comics Art in China covers almost all comics art forms in mainland China, providing the history from the nineteenth century to the present as...
Drawing in the Digital Age
An Observational Method for Artists and Animators
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
A solid foundation for improving your drawing skills
Teaching a new observational method based on math and computer graphics principles, this book offers an innovative approach that shows you how to use both sides of your brain to make drawing easier and more accurate. Author Wei Xu, PhD, walks...
The Politics of Compassion
The Sichuan Earthquake and Civic Engagement in China
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
The 2008 Sichuan earthquake killed 87,000 people and left 5 million homeless. In response to the devastation, an unprecedented wave of volunteers and civic associations streamed into Sichuan to offer help. The Politics of Compassion examines how civically engaged citizens acted on the ground, how...
Dear Hong Kong
Penguin Specials
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Xu Xi's body of work witnesses her turbulent love affair with her home-city of Hong Kong. In this probing memoir, she unravels her recently finalised decision to leave the city for good. She critiques a Hong Kong that has, in her eyes, lost its way. And yet, it is only out of the city's enduring presence...