Thread Of The Silkworm
内容简介
The definitive biography of Tsien Hsue-Shen, the pioneer of the American space age who was mysteriously accused of being a communist, deported, and becameto America’s continuing chagrinthe father of the Chinese missile program.
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作者简介
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.
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目录
* Introduction
* Hangzhou (1911-1914)
* Beijing (1914-1929)
* Shanghai (1929-1934)
* Boxer Rebellion Scholar (1934-1935)
* MIT (1935-1936)
* Theodore von Krmn
* Caltech (1936)
* The Suicide Squad (1937-1943)
* The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (1943-1945)
* Washington and Germany (1945)
* Return to MIT (1946-1947)
* Summons from China (1947)
* Jiang Ying
* Ascent (1947-1948)
* Caltech (1949)
* Suspicion (1950)
* Arrest (1950)
* Investigation (1950)
* Hearings (1950-1951)
* Waiting (1951-1954)
* The Wang-Johnson Talks (1955)
* One of the Tragedies of This Century
* A Heros Welcome (1955)
* Missiles of the East Wind
* Becoming a Communist
* Epilogue
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读书文摘
在加州理工学院的第一学年，他收集了可能找到的全世界所有与航空学有关的研究资料，系统性地加以阅读。他每天花在读文献上的时间平均超过10小时。
马利纳发明了动态艺术（kinetic art），一种将艺术和科学有机结合起来的艺术表现形式。。
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