Author: Lan Samantha Chang
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: hunger
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2000-01-01
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0140288481
ISBN-13: 9780140288483

An award-winning novella and stories that beautifully illuminate the Chinese immigrant experience. Nominated for numerous awards, including the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and PEN Center USA-West’s annual literary award, this debut collection by a young Chinese-American writer has garnered stellar reviews and invited comparisons to Amy Tan and Maxine Hong Kingston. These stories reveal the lives of immigrant families haunted by lost loves: a ghost seduces a young girl into a flooded river; a mother commands a daughter to avenge her father’s death; and a woman speaks from beyond th

Author: Lan Samantha Chang
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: stories, novella, hunger
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2009-09-08
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0393337952
ISBN-13: 9780393337952

“Spare and haunting tales that ask ordinary questions about that extraordinary emotion: love.”—Chicago Tribune. The novella and five stories that make up this collection reveal the lives of immigrant families haunted by lost loves: a ghost seduces a young girl into a flooded river; a mother commands a daughter to avenge her father’s death; and in the title novella, a woman speaks from beyond the grave about her tragic marriage to an exiled musician whose own disappointments nearly destroyed their two daughters.

Author: Lan Samantha Chang
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: novel, inheritance
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2004-08
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0393059197
ISBN-13: 9780393059199

A timeless story of familial devotion undermined by deceit and passion and rebuilt by memory, by the acclaimed author of Hunger. In 1931, abandoned after their mother’s suicide, the young Junan and her sister, Yinan, make a pact never to leave each other. The two girls are inseparable—until Junan enters into an arranged marriage and makes the mistake of falling in love with her soldier husband. When the Japanese invade China, Junan and her husband are separated. Unable to follow him to the wartime capital, Junan makes the fateful decision to send her sister after him. Set in Chin

Authors:Helen Stalford, Samantha Currie, Samantha Velluti, He
Publisher: Ashgate
Keywords: migration, law, europe, century, gender
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2009-08-28
List price: $99.95
ISBN-10: 0754674509
ISBN-13: 9780754674504

This collection provides new interdisciplinary and empirically-grounded insights into the issues surrounding gender and migration into and within Europe. The work presents a comprehensive and critical overview of the historical, legal, policy and cultural framework underpinning different types of European migration. The authors analyze the impact of migration on women’s careers; the impact of migration on family life; and gender perspectives on forced migration. The volume also examines the consequences of EU enlargement for women’s migration opportunities and practices, as well as

Authors:Yu Jung Chang, Byran D. Black, David Chang, Dianne Ge
Publisher: American Water Works Research Foundation
Keywords: manganese, removal, arsenic, simultaneous, processes, advanced
Number of Pages: 132
Published: 2006-09-15
List price: $209.00
ISBN-10: 1583214607
ISBN-13: 9781583214602

The overall objectives of this project were to modify, demonstrate, and optimize an existing treatment process to simultaneously remove both arsenic and manganese. The EPA established a new maximum contaminant level (MCL) for arsenic at 10 µg/L in January 2002, with compliance required by February 2006. Additionally the project set to establish an efficient process design approach for implementing this process. For this study the existing oxidation/filtration process at the Southern California Water Company’s (SCWC) Centralia site was modified to include a ferric chloride feed system and a

Authors:Yung-Chang Chen, Long-Wen Chang, Chiou-Ting Hsu,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: pcm, processing, information, multimedia, advances
Number of Pages: 1238
Published: 2003-01-31
List price: $132.00
ISBN-10: 3540002626
ISBN-13: 9783540002628

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia, PCM 2002, held in Hsinchu, Taiwan in December 2002. The 154 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 224 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on mobile multimedia, digitial watermarking and data hiding, motion analysis, mulitmedia retrieval techniques, image processing, mulitmedia security, image coding, mulitmedia learning, audio signal processing, wireless multimedia streaming, multimedia systems in the Internet, distance education and mu

Authors:Jack Williams, Chang-yi David Chang,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: contemporary, asia, series, routledge, island, environmental, struggle, silicon, taiwan
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2008-03-28
List price: $150.00
ISBN-10: 0415447232
ISBN-13: 9780415447232

Taiwan experienced a highly successful economic transformation in the last 50 years that produced one of Asia’s genuine ‘miracles’ of modern development, in terms of improvement in per capita income and overall quality of material well being for its citizens. The process, though, involved rapid industrialization and urbanization, and breakneck mass consumption, that inevitably resulted in rapid escalation in degradation of the island’s fragile air, water, and land, and produced some of the worst environmental pollution to be found anywhere in Asia This book examines the causes of Taiw