Thats when she began appreciating the differences between her. East meets west with this pictogram panorama book from chinese designer. Regulations in the eastern us, led by bryan duncan and jason west. The cultural differences between east and west, according to one. Cultural differences between east and west, reduced to. Yang liu rollins school of public health emory university. Emory university faculty and students are now in northern india for the latest installment of the emorytibet science initiative etsi, which is bringing comprehensive science education to tibetan monastics one of the faculty members teaching this summer is paul wallace. Yang liu spent half of her life in china and half in germany.
Yangs specialty is in imageguided intervention, multimodality medical imaging, machine learning, as well as image registration and segmentation. Conceived and designed with perceptive wit and her signature graphic simplicity, yang liu s pictograms convey the obvious and sometimes not so obvious discrepancies in life on opposite sides of the globe. Yang liu grew up in china, but then moved to germany, becoming a designer. Yuan liu, phd, is an assistant professor in the department of biostatistics and bioinformatics at rollin school of public health. I bought this book because i saw today meets yesterday at a conference and love all three of yang lius books. Already an online phenomenon, east meets west is the first volume in designer yang lius successful infographic series. Yang liu has 65 books on goodreads with 754 ratings. She won several prices and had a worldwide success with her first book. One of her projects, east meets west, consists of a series of comparisons of chinese vs. East meets west bilingual by yang liu, yang liu isbn. Alhamden to develop and carry out satellitebased pm estimation. Lius book was originally published in german in 2007 and has only recently come. Yu li accepted a position at loyola marymount university in the fall of 2018. Wayne rollins research center 1510 clifton road ne, atlanta, ga 30322 email.
Yang lius popular graphics depicting the differences between east and west. Hot on the heels of its bestselling predecessors, today meets yesterday deploys the same vivid pictogram pairings to explore the. Naturally, were headoverheels with designer yang lius ingenious east meets west infographic series, tackling everything from differences in selfperception to evolution of transportation. Its one of the most innovative, brilliant books put together as a comparison between the west and east cultures. Yang is a great graphic designer whose work has always been bold and iconographic, and. Blue western culture red eastern culture way of life westerners assert a lot more independence and individualism. Tian liu, phd, dabr emory university school of medicine. Yang liu salaita group is bringing new techniques to the emerging field of mechanobiology. Being that i worked with yang at chermayeff and geismar when i first moved to new york, i offered to do an interview with her about the project. Pathology faculty directory emory school of medicine.
I am a neuroscientist with a physics background, working at the intersection of the fields of auditory neuroethology and social neuroscience. She joined the biostatistics and bioinformatics shared resource at winship cancer institute in january 2010. Cultural differences of east vs west in pictograms. The best book i ever have read about differences china vrs. Yangs thesis committee was led by khalid salaita with vince conticello and tianquan lian as additional members. Jean posted about yang lius ost trifft west east meets west exhibit back. The activity uses the simple but startlingly canny imagery created by yang liu for her infographic book, east meets west.
Liu lab people emory university biology department. Liu has been funded by nasa, cdc, nih, epa, hei, and who to apply satellite data in air quality modeling and study the impact of. An infographic portrait juxtaposes eyecatching infographics that cleverly distill her observations of the two cultures. Associate professor department of environmental health 1518 clifton road ne claudia nance rollins bldg, room 2031 atlanta, ga 30322 yang. The cultural differences she witnessed inspired her to design a book of graphics titled east meets west. If you would like to order a copy of yangs book, you can email her. An infographic portrait by yang liu, artist and visual designer. I transitioned into neuroscience as a postdoc, working with systems neuroscientists at the university of california, san franciscos sloanswartz center for theoretical neurobiology. Pengbo liu research assistant professor faculty bios. Graphic artist yang liu has a sharp eye for cultural comparison, honed by personal experience. Its a small book about 5x5 inches and less than an inch thick that illustrates the cultural differences between east and west in a series of simple but sort of profound images.
Heres another article from anna corpron of substudio. East meets west by yang liu meet your next favorite book. Tickle professor of civil and environmental engineering. Hundreds of books have been written about each subject in milanbased. Associate professor, rollins school of public health, emory university. In this third installment in her pictogram series for taschen, leading graphic designer yang liu brings the way we were face to face with the way we are. Chinese artist sums up the difference between eastern and. Through visuals like the following one on expressing opinions, liu explores cultural differences between china, where shes from and germany, where she lives. Yangs research experiences include tumor immunology, cancer stem cells, cancer gene therapy, apoptosis resistance, molecular targeted cancer therapy, nanoparticle imaging probes, and theranostic nanoparticles for targeted cancer therapy and imaging. This soloshow east meets west by yang liu, which was placed at ministry of foreign affairs in germany, is poster art that compares german western culture with chinese culture in a way that humorously captures some societal differences. Department of mathematics and computer science, emory university, atlanta, ga 30322. Their combined citations are counted only for the first article. Li received her phd 2007 in linguistics from the university of. Yang is an assistant professor of medical physics and director of the medical physics residency program in the department of radiation oncology at emory university school of medicine.
Conceived and designed with perceptive wit and her signature graphic. Conceived and designed with perceptive wit and her signature graphic simplicity, yang lius pictograms convey the obvious and sometimes not so obvious discrepancies in life on opposite sides of the globe. Yang liu, east meets west after all, the kind of culture shock liu illustrates can be hard to navigate and articulate. Very cleverly illustrated, it makes a fun subject of discussion. Twelve sacred voices from the east and west compass the. Yang liu, phd department of environmental health emory university, rollins school of public health 1518 clifton road ne, cnr bldg 2031 atlanta, ga 30322 yang. Yang liu successfully defended his thesis, developing nanoparticlebased tools to investigate mechanotransduction at the livingnonliving interface on tuesday, september 6th, 2016. Liu, who was born in beijing and moved to berlin at, took on the challenge for east meets west taschen, a pocketsized book of pictographs showing how values respect for elders, treatment of. Jan 7, 2015 yang liu has lived in both china and germany, and when she became a designer, she drew the differences in cultural assumptions. Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and. An infographic portrait by yang liu submitted by rainer falle 271 comments 6,312 views the artist and visual designer yang liu was born in china and lives in germany since she was 14.
As director of medical physics at winship cancer institute, dr. The cultural differences between east and west, according. Yangs father is an academic biologist studying agriculture in china. Journals az books and reference advertising media kit institutional. Yang liu is an associate professor in emory universitys rollins school of public health. Department of russian and east asian languages and. East meets west red blue infographics friends international. On november 4, berlinbased artist and designer yang liu gave a presentation of her awardwinning cultural pictograms at nyu shanghai. Graphic artist yang liu has a sharp eye for cultural comparison, honed. She is a senior lecturer of the chinese program, the east asian studies program, and the program in linguistics. She was years old when her family moved to europe. Emory university, rolllins school of public health. The promise the east west book of rice cookery love poems from god. The department of russian and east asian languages and cultures realc is an interdisciplinary department dedicated to the study of languages and cultures in the geographic continuum from eastern europe through eastern asia.
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