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HC Hsu's stories linger, remain and clutch the audience long after reading. A wonderfully innovative collection. A writer to watch."--Michael Graves (author of Dirty One) In this short story collection from HC Hsu, love and death converge in a maze of desire where strangers find intimacy with, as well as inflict violence on, one another as their lives cross in twisted and unexpected ways.
This book provides an overview of the journey of George C. Hsu from his birth and childhood in war-torn China, to his eventual settlement in Richmond, Virginia as a corporate engineer. Special focus is given to his family's struggle in Taiwan as political refugees following the Communist Revolution of 1949 and his incredible opportunity to study in the United States as one of the first batch of Chinese graduate students allowed in the country.
On December 10, 2010, on stage in Oslo City Hall, an empty chair sat before more than one thousand people, holding only the medal and diploma of the year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner. A larger-than-life photo of a smiling Liu Xiaobo hung in the background. This striking image is now known throughout the world. But who is Liu Xiaobo? For the first time, this biographyby renowned Chinese author and close friend Yu Jie offers a first-hand look into the man behind the empty chair. Dissident, prisoner, poet, scholar, Liu was compelled by intolerable circumstances to embark on a campaign of intellectual dissent, becoming in the course of his journey a leading human rights activist and one of the m...
A comprehensive overview of the recent and state-of-the-art research on chemically derived graphene materials for different applications.
Literary Nonfiction. Essays. Asian & Asian American Studies. Taking Tang poet Bai Juyi's poem Come in the middle of the night / Gone at the break of dawn / Come as a fleeting dream of spring / Gone as a morning cloud vanishing without a trace as inspiration, MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT is The Best American Essays nominee HC Hsu's collection of award-winning personal essays from 2009-2014. Arranged by time written rather than date, these circadianly adrift essays explore love and sex, history and identity, hopes, nightmares, and other nocturnal joys and quotidian tyrannies haunting our sunlit existence. From a ghost- hunting chronicle in a famed Buddhist temple in rural Japan, to childhood memories o...
This book approaches the design of functionally superior optoelectronic devices through the use of bio-inspired nanostructures and multiscale material structures through a step-by-step approach. The book combines both the fundamental theoretical concepts involved in understanding and numerically modelling optoelectronic devices and the application of such methods in addressing challenging research problems in nanostructured optoelectronic design and fabrication. The book offers comprehensive content in optoelectronic materials and engineering and can be used as a reference material by researchers in nanostructured optoelectronic design.
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