Iris Chang

Thread Of The Silkworm

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-465-00678-6
EAN: 9780465006786
Produktnummer: 22820859
Verlag: Basic Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 1996
Seitenangabe: 352 S.
Masse: H22.8 cm x B15.2 cm x D2.5 cm 543 g
Gewicht: 543
Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)

Über den Autor

Iris Chang lived and worked in California. She was a journalism graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana and worked briefly as a reporter in Chicago before winning a graduate fellowship to the writing seminars program at The Johns Hopkins University. Her first book, Thread of the Silkworm (the story of Tsien Hsue-shen, father of the People's Republic of China's missile program) received world-wide critical acclaim. She is the recipient of the John T. and Catherine D. MacArthur Foundation's Program on Peace and International Cooperation award, as well as major grants from the National Science Foundation, the Pacific Cultural Foundation, and the Harry Truman Library. She passed away in 2004.