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Title: Thread of the Silkworm by Iris Chang ISBN: 0-465-00678-7 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: November, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.11 (9 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: shines a light on a murky time in history
Comment: I must admit a bias - HS Tsien is my grandfather's cousin. As such, this book is for me the family history that noone would tell me. For other readers, I would say that most history books concentrate on the rise of the USSR as a power, and then *poof!* there's China...how did that happen? Chang's book reveals how China's emergence on the world stage as a military power resulted from the US's own stupidity and xenophobia. My one real complaint about the book is that Chang's writing seems to drive the book to a climax at the point of Tsien's return to China, and then peeters out while she recounts China's race to the ICBM. This inconsistancy makes one feel that Chang herself had lost interest in the story, which is unfortunate. This story is fascinating enough (for anyone interested in history, not just me) to wish that the entire book had been treated with the care that Chang shows Tsien's US phase. Anyways, one leaves the story with feelings of respect and regret for what could have been. Please note that HS Tsien is still a bogeyman for the US intelligence community - he was mentioned, as Qian Xuesen, in the 1999 Cox report during the Los Alamos spy scandal. As far as I know, HS Tsien is still alive.
Rating: 5
Summary: Meticulously researched and superbly written...
Comment: This is another book written by Iris Chang, author of bestseller "The Rape of Nanking". "Thread of Silkworm" told a fascinating story of a Chinese scientist, Tsien Hsue-Shen, educated in U. S. with great contribution in U. S. rocketry, was falsely accused as a communist and deported back to China in 1950's. Upon return to China, he became the father of Chinese missile program. The book was meticulously researched and superbly written. Iris Chang is a very talented writer; this is evident by this book.
Rating: 1
Summary: barely scratches the surface
Comment: ... the subject matter is very intriging and deservesattention. However, Ms. Chang's book has no real insight into Tsien'slife.... The actual writting is also lackingg. The book is filled with dragging sentences that fails to excite the reader. I only recommand this book to readers who do not know anything about Chinese history or Tisen. It is to be used as an general and elementry reference only. Even then, there are still many holes....
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Title: The Chinese in America: A Narrative History by Iris Chang ISBN: 0670031232 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: 28 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II by Iris Chang, William C. Kirby ISBN: 0140277447 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: November, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: A Convenient Spy: Wen Ho Lee and the Politics of Nuclear Espionage by Dan Stober, Ian Hoffman ISBN: 0743223780 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 08 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: My Country Versus Me: The First-Hand Account by the Los Alamos Scientist Who Was Falsely Accused by Wen Ho Lee, Helen Zia ISBN: 0786868031 Publisher: Hyperion Press Pub. Date: 15 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Asian American Dreams : The Emergence of an American People by Helen Zia ISBN: 0374527369 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 15 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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