(Tien Chang-lin's Road to Berkeley: The Glorious Times of an Asian American Chancellor)
Xiaoli Liu

The biography covers Dr. Tien Chang-lin's childhood through his years as the seventh Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley (1990-1997). As an authority on heat transfer, Chancellor Tien was a faculty member of Mechanical Engineering at the University for over 40 years, and he was the first Asian American to head a top university in the United States. His leadership and vision were severely tested at a time when California was facing a weak economic climate, which led to the early retirement of a host of prominent senior faculty. Chancellor Tien convinced legislators to maintain the highest levels of state support for quality education and research at the University of California. He advocated excellence through diversity and initiated a major building project to combine a new East Asian Library and the Institute of East Asian Studies into an East Asian Studies Center, which will be named after him.

East Asian LD755 T54 L58 1997

(A Collection of Interviews and Talks with Yuan-tseh Lee)

Dr. Yuan-tseh Lee, formerly a professor in Chemistry at UC Berkeley, shared the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his ground-breaking research into the nature of chemical reactions. He is currently the president of Academia Sinica, the highest academic institution in the Republic of China. Displayed here is a collection of his conversations and discussions on various topics ranging form research, education, technological and cultural developments to human rights and politics.

East Asian QD22 L524 A5 1994

Ling Shan (Soul Mountain)

Gao Xingjian, the first Chinese writer to win the Nobel Prize in literature, was born in Jiangxi Province in Eastern China. He has been a French citizen since 1988. The prize-winning novel was selected as "an oeuvre of universal validity, bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity, which has opened new paths for the Chinese novel and drama." It was translated into English as Soul Mountain by Mabel Lee in 2000.

East Asian PL2869 O128 L57 1990