Download or read book Shu Chien written by Amy Lanping Sung and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2004 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book consists of tributes written by friends, colleagues, teachers, students and family members of Professor Shu Chien on the occasion of his 70th birthday, which was celebrated in San Diego, California on 23 June 2001, and in Taipei, Taiwan on 12 August 2001.A collection of articles was submitted prior to and following these events. Together with the precious, memorable photographs, these articles provide a valuable summary of the life and deeds of this internationally acclaimed scientist who has made major impacts in the United States, mainland China and Taiwan OCo indeed, the whole world. In response to these excellent, moving articles, Professor Shu Chien has written a piece that encompasses his entire life, from early childhood to the present. This book constitutes a most valuable biography, full of sentiment and inspiration."
Download or read book Shu Chien An Autobiography And Tributes At His 80th Birthday And Beyond written by Yi-shuan Julie Li and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book celebrates Professor Shu Chien's contributions and achievements in his eight decades of learning, servicing, innovation and creation. The book is composed of tributes written by family, friends, colleagues, students, and trainees, as well as an autobiography by Professor Chien.Professor Chien is one of the most eminent scientists in the world. He is a laureate of US National Medal of Science and Taiwan's Presidential Prize in Life Sciences, as well as members of six American and Chinese Academies. Besides his academic achievements in physiology and biomedical engineering, he has made outstanding contributions through leadership in professional organizations in these disciplines. His dedications to education and teaching have inspired countless young scientists around the world. The tribute articles written by family, friends, colleagues, students, and trainees, together with memorable photographs, provide an excellent summary of how this remarkable person is viewed by others. Professor Chien's autobiography presents his illustrious life history and shares his precious experience and philosophy, resonating with the tributes by others. This book makes a very enjoyable and inspirational reading to everyone.
Download or read book Shu Chien written by Shu Chien and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Molecular and Cellular Mechanobiology written by Shu Chien and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-08-10 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will cover the cutting-edge developments in molecular and cellular mechanobiology to date. Readers will have a clear understanding of mechanobiology at the molecular and cellular levels, encompassing the mechanosensors, transducers, and transcription. An integrative approach across different scales from molecular sensing to mechanotransduction and gene modulation for physiological regulation of cellular functions will be explored, as well as applications to pathophysiological states in disease. A comprehensive understanding of the roles of physicochemical microenvironment and intracellular responses in determining cellular function in health and disease will also be discussed.
Download or read book Introduction to Bioengineering written by Yuan-cheng Fung and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2001 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bioengineering is attracting many high quality students. This invaluable book has been written for beginning students of bioengineering, and is aimed at instilling a sense of engineering in them.Engineering is invention and designing things that do not exist in nature for the benefit of humanity. Invention can be taught by making inventive thinking a conscious part of our daily life. This is the approach taken by the authors of this book. Each author discusses an ongoing project, and gives a sample of a professional publication. Students are asked to work through a sequence of assignments and write a report. Almost everybody soon realizes that more scientific knowledge is needed, and a strong motivation for the study of science is generated. The teaching of inventive thinking is a new trend in engineering education. Bioengineering is a good field with which to begin this revolution in engineering education, because it is a youthful, developing interdisciplinary field.
Download or read book National Library of Medicine Current Catalog written by National Library of Medicine (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 1684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sinophone Studies written by Shu-mei Shih and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-22 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This definitive anthology casts Sinophone studies as the study of Sinitic-language cultures born of colonial and postcolonial influences. Essays by such authors as Rey Chow, Ha Jin, Leo Ou-fan Lee, Ien Ang, Wei-ming Tu, and David Wang address debates concerning the nature of Chineseness while introducing readers to essential readings in Tibetan, Malaysian, Taiwanese, French, Caribbean, and American Sinophone literatures. By placing Sinophone cultures at the crossroads of multiple empires, this anthology richly demonstrates the transformative power of multiculturalism and multilingualism, and by examining the place-based cultural and social practices of Sinitic-language communities in their historical contexts beyond "China proper," it effectively refutes the diasporic framework. It is an invaluable companion for courses in Asian, postcolonial, empire, and ethnic studies, as well as world and comparative literature.
Download or read book Transforming Traditions in Modern Chinese Painting written by Jason C. Kuo and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2004 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Chinese painting embodies the constant renewal and reinvigorations of Chinese civilization amidst rebellions, reforms, and revolutions, even if the process may appear confusing and bewildering. It also demonstrates the persistence of tradition and limits of continuities and changes in modern Chinese cluture. Most significantly, it compels us to ask several important questions in the study of modern Chinese culture: How extensively can cultural tradition be re-interpreted before it is subverted? At what point is creative re-invention an act of betrayal of tradition? How has selective borrowing from Chinese tradition and foreign cultrue enabled modern Chinese artists to sustain themselves in the modern world? By focusing on the art of Huang Pin-hung (1865-1955), particularly his late work, this book attempts to provide some answers to these questions.
Download or read book In Search of the Supernatural written by Bao Gan and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1996-04 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the first complete translation into a Western language of Sou-shen Chi, a fourth-century Chinese collection of 464 extraordinary, fantastic, or bizarre items. The subjects of these brief anecdotes and narratives include natural curiosities, gods, religious figures, omens, dreams, divinations, miracles, monsters, strange animals, demons, ghosts, and exorcists. The stories range from sober reports of drought and misfortune to accounts of a fox transformed into a turtle, persons whose heads could take independent flight at night, a tryst in a tomb, and the marriages of humans with spirits." "Sou-shen Chi is the oldest, richest, and most consulted example of the chi-kuai genre, an important division of classical Chinese literature demonstrating features of narrative technique and ethereal sensibility that point to chi-kuai as the earliest examples of Chinese fiction. Of the three surviving versions of Sou-shen Chi, the 20-chapter edition translated here is widely accepted as the best representation of the work of its compiler, Kan Pao, the official court historian for Emperor Yuan of the Chin dynasty. The style of the writing is terse, almost austere, and it has qualities of documentary prose, a reflection of its common ancestry with historical writing. An introduction deals with the text and its background, authorship, contents, versions, and transmission." "Sou-shen Chi served as a model for subsequent collections and provided many basic plots, characters, and situations for plays, novels, and even poetry. The stories were widely known and became part of the body of allusions that literate Chinese knew and used in their own writings. For example, in the twentieth century Lu Xun retold, in extended fashion, a tale of magic swords that comes from Sou-shen Chi."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Download or read book The Medieval Chinese Oliogarchy written by David C Johnson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most modern scholars recognize that there were great differences between China's ruling elite in the middle and late traditional period; many have called the period up through the T'ang dynasty "aristocratic," in contrast to the more meritocratic and socially mobile age that followed. But until now there has been no serious effort to discover how the social elite was defined in medieval times, and who belonged to it. David Johnson discusses in detail medieval definitions of the social elite, and, with the help of several manuscripts of the ninth century, identifies the families that belonged to that class.
Download or read book Flowering in the Shadows written by Marsha Smith Weidner and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For well over a thousand years Chinese and Japanese women created, commissioned, collected and used paintings, yet until recently this fact has scarcely been acknowledged in the study of East Asian art by Westerners.
Download or read book Research Awards Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vocabulary and Handbook of the Chinese Language written by Justus Doolittle and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journal of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society for the Year written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 994 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Passion for Life written by Cheng-Wen Wu and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a biography of Dr Felicia Wu.Felicia was a scientist with a successful career in cancer research, but what marked the most extraordinary aspect about her life was her journey as a truly brave cancer patient and an incredibly determined cancer fighter. Originally, this book was intended to be an autobiography written and narrated by Felicia herself. She wanted to share with other cancer sufferers her 13 long years of experience fighting cancer to prepare them for the side effects and uncertainties of the treatment, and also to encourage them to brace and face their own treatment without fear. What she did not realize then was that her time was ticking away, and her life trickling off quickly. Writing her own autobiography proved to be an impossible task.Felicia succumbed to the prolonged battle and departed from this world. Her husband, Dr Cheng-Wen Wu, finished the uncompleted task of writing the book in loving memory of her. The biography of Felicia, originally published in Chinese edition, has been recommended as a reading model for students in schools and was nominated for an award in Taiwan. Felicia's story had also inspired the production of a documentary film entitled, “A Passion for Life,” funded and sponsored by The American Cancer Society. This biography of Felicia in English edition, painstakingly translated by Dr Cheng-Wen Wu and his collaborating translator, Ms Annie Chen, will certainly live up to its original premise as an inspiration to touch more lives and as a source of strength to all who encounter difficulty, disappointment and hurt at any point of their lives.
Download or read book A Catalogue of the Collection of Chinese and Manchu Books Given to the University of Cambridge written by Cambridge University Library and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
