She joined the biostatistics and bioinformatics shared resource at winship cancer institute in january 2010. Chinese artist sums up the difference between eastern and. East meets west with this pictogram panorama book from chinese designer. Graphic artist yang liu has a sharp eye for cultural comparison, honed. Regulations in the eastern us, led by bryan duncan and jason west. 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. The activity uses the simple but startlingly canny imagery created by yang liu for her infographic book, east meets west. Department of mathematics and computer science, emory university, atlanta, ga 30322. An artist, who was raised in multiple cultures, decided to make a simple but interesting infographic playing on some of the unique differences between the east and the west. An infographic portrait juxtaposes eyecatching infographics that cleverly distill her observations of the two cultures. Yang is a great graphic designer whose work has always been bold and iconographic, and. 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.
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 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. Emory university, rolllins school of public health. 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. Cultural differences of east vs west in pictograms. The cultural differences she witnessed inspired her to design a book of graphics titled east meets west.
Yang liu rollins school of public health emory university. Wayne rollins research center 1510 clifton road ne, atlanta, ga 30322 email. She is a senior lecturer of the chinese program, the east asian studies program, and the program in linguistics. Difference between eastern and western lifestyle east meets west. 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. Yangs father is an academic biologist studying agriculture in china. Blue western culture red eastern culture way of life westerners assert a lot more independence and individualism.
She was years old when her family moved to europe. 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. Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and. East meets west an intercultural competence activity. Yu li accepted a position at loyola marymount university in the fall of 2018. Yang liu is an associate professor in emory universitys rollins school of public health. Jean posted about yang lius ost trifft west east meets west exhibit back. Born in china but living in germany since she was 14, liu has a unique grip of this cultural duality and she channels it with great wit and. 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. Naturally, were headoverheels with designer yang lius ingenious east meets west infographic series, tackling everything from differences in selfperception to evolution of transportation. Already an online phenomenon, east meets west is the first volume in designer yang liu s successful infographic series. As director of medical physics at winship cancer institute, dr. Yang lius popular graphics depicting the differences between east and west.
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. 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. 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 russian and east asian languages and. Yang liu, east meets west after all, the kind of culture shock liu illustrates can be hard to navigate and articulate. Twelve sacred voices from the east and west compass the. East meets west by yang liu meet your next favorite book. Journals az books and reference advertising media kit institutional. 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.
Their combined citations are counted only for the first article. Through visuals like the following one on expressing opinions, liu explores cultural differences between china, where shes from and germany, where she lives. In 1990, at the age of, she moved from beijing, to. 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. On november 4, berlinbased artist and designer yang liu gave a presentation of her awardwinning cultural pictograms at nyu shanghai. There were countless times when i was variously confused, surprised. Hot on the heels of its bestselling predecessors, today meets yesterday deploys the same vivid pictogram pairings to explore the. Liu lab people emory university biology department. One of her projects, east meets west, consists of a series of comparisons of chinese vs. Tickle professor of civil and environmental engineering. Since 2010 yang liu is professor and the head of the department of communications design at the berlin technical art university. Conceived and designed with perceptive wit and her signature graphic.
Graphic artist yang liu has a sharp eye for cultural comparison, honed by personal experience. I transitioned into neuroscience as a postdoc, working with systems neuroscientists at the university of california, san franciscos sloanswartz center for theoretical neurobiology. East meets west red blue infographics friends international. Drawing from her experiences of growing up in china and germany, lius east meets west. Yangs thesis committee was led by khalid salaita with vince conticello and tianquan lian as additional members. The cultural differences between east and west, according to one. Alhamden to develop and carry out satellitebased pm estimation. Very cleverly illustrated, it makes a fun subject of discussion.
Lius book was originally published in german in 2007 and has only recently come. Yang liu salaita group is bringing new techniques to the emerging field of mechanobiology. East meets west bilingual by yang liu, yang liu isbn. Pengbo liu research assistant professor faculty bios. Li received her phd 2007 in linguistics from the university of. Its one of the most innovative, brilliant books put together as a comparison between the west and east cultures. If you would like to order a copy of yangs book, you can email her. Thats when she began appreciating the differences between her. 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. Cultural differences between east and west, reduced to.
Yang liu successfully defended his thesis, developing nanoparticlebased tools to investigate mechanotransduction at the livingnonliving interface on tuesday, september 6th, 2016. Yang liu spent half of her life in china and half in germany. An infographic portrait by yang liu, artist and visual designer. Academics tend to discuss cultural differences in words. Yuan liu, phd, is an assistant professor in the department of biostatistics and bioinformatics at rollin school of public health. Associate professor department of environmental health 1518 clifton road ne claudia nance rollins bldg, room 2031 atlanta, ga 30322 yang. 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. 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. Jean posted about yang lius ost trifft west east meets west exhibit back in september. Heres another article from anna corpron of substudio.
Tian liu, phd, dabr emory university school of medicine. Yang liu grew up in china, but then moved to germany, becoming a designer. Yang liu has 65 books on goodreads with 754 ratings. The cultural differences between east and west, according. Hundreds of books have been written about each subject in milanbased. The promise the east west book of rice cookery love poems from god. She won several prices and had a worldwide success with her first book. Lily yang, md, phd is a professor of surgery and radiology and a prominent researcher. 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.
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