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Thread Of The Silkworm Kindle Edition
- ISBN-13978-0465087167
- PublisherBasic Books
- Publication dateAugust 6, 2008
- LanguageEnglish
- File size13516 KB
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Product details
- ASIN : B00AAL5NIS
- Publisher : Basic Books (August 6, 2008)
- Publication date : August 6, 2008
- Language : English
- File size : 13516 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 386 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #645,404 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #425 in Biology (Kindle Store)
- #3,614 in Biology (Books)
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About the author
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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Dislike: Over detailed until very draggy.
Good presentation of a very complex state of mind. Recommended.
FBI and INS of America at that time. Alas!
who is thirsty of missile technology to counter the Northern Commuinists.