Overview
- Sets Qian Xuesen’s life story from perspective of Qian’s family culture, social environment, and historical background
- Answers “the Question of Qian Xuesen” by revealing Qian Xuesen’s personal growth
- Provides valuable pictures as reference materials for researches of Qian Xuesen’s life
- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
Buy print copy
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
About this book
This open access book is intended for common readers who are interested in the life story of Qian Xuesen (also know as Tsien Hsue-Shen). Based on a large number of original archives and historical materials, this book focuses on Qian Xuesen’s years of seeking knowledge from his birth in 1911 to his return to China in 1955 and describes how he grows into a world-known scientist from the aspect of humanity. This book can be used as reference material for Qian Xuesen’s earlier years.
Similar content being viewed by others
Keywords
- Life Story of Qian Xuesen
- Qian Xuesen Biography
- Chinese Scientist
- The Father of Chinese Missiles
- Family Education
- Qian Xuesen
- Hsue-Shen Tsien
- National Chiao Tung University
- Theodore von Kármán
- Jiang Ying
- Father of Chinese Rocketry
- King of Rocketry
- “Two Bombs, One Satellite”
- Chinese Nuclear Weapons Program
- Tsien Jun-fu
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- Return to China from the US
- Open access
Table of contents (6 chapters)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Chengdong Lv, is Master of History and currently working in Qian Xuesen Library of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. He is mainly engaged in research on Qian Xuesen’s thoughts and contemporary Chinese history of science and technology. He has participated in 2 National Social Science Foundation Projects, 1 Shanghai Social Science Planning Project and won the Outstanding Achievement Award of National Social Science Foundation twice.
Yingchun Zhang is a PhD, and an associate professor in the School of English Studies, Zhejiang International Studies University. She lectures on a range of courses, such as “An Introduction to Chinese Culture”, “English Academic Paper Research and Writing”, “Cross-Cultural Communication”, “Cultural Anthropology”, and so on. She had been a visiting scholar in the Department of Asian Studies in the University of Western Australia, and in the Department of Curriculum Studies in the University of Wisconsin-Madison sponsored by China Scholarship Council. Her studies are concerned with curriculum studies, pedagogy and cultural heritage. She has written, edited or translated 5 books and approximately 30 journal articles. Her book entitled “Cultural Discourse of Confusion Scholarship: the Talent of Tang Shouqian” won 2020 Social Science Award of Zhejiang International Studies University. Her articles have been published in journals home and abroad, such as Frontiers of Foreign Language Education Research, International Heritage Studies, Leisure Studies, Discourse Studies, and so on. She is currently an auditing expert for English textbooks in junior and senior high schools in Zhejiang Province.
Yingchun Zhang is a PhD, and an associate professor in the School of English Studies, Zhejiang International Studies University. She lectures on a range of courses, such as “An Introduction to Chinese Culture”, “English Academic Paper Research and Writing”, “Cross-Cultural Communication”, “Cultural Anthropology”, and so on. She had been a visiting scholar in the Department of Asian Studies in the University of Western Australia, and in the Department of Curriculum Studies in the University of Wisconsin-Madison sponsored by China Scholarship Council. Her studies are concerned with curriculum studies, pedagogy and cultural heritage. She has written, edited or translated 5 books and approximately 30 journal articles. Her book entitled “Cultural Discourse of Confusion Scholarship: the Talent of Tang Shouqian” won 2020 Social Science Award of Zhejiang International Studies University. Her articles have been published in journals home and abroad, such as Frontiers of Foreign Language Education Research, International Heritage Studies, Leisure Studies, Discourse Studies, and so on. She is currently an auditing expert for English textbooks in junior and senior high schools in Zhejiang Province.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Return to China One Day
Book Subtitle: The Learning Life of Qian Xuesen
Authors: Chengdong Lv
Translated by: Yingchun Zhang
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-5755-0
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Zhejiang Science and Technology Publishing House 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-19-5754-3Published: 03 January 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-19-5757-4Published: 03 January 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-5755-0Published: 02 January 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 190
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 88 illustrations in colour
Topics: History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics, History of China, Societal Aspects of Physics, Outreach and Education, Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology