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This thesis addresses selected unsolved problems in the chemical mechanical polishing process (CMP) for integrated circuits using ruthenium (Ru) as a novel barrier layer material. Pursuing a systematic approach to resolve the remaining critical issues in the CMP, it first investigates the tribocorr... More

The first time he saw Chen Chang, Ze Ming knew that he was in love with him.Thus, when Chen Chang invited him to form a band, he chose to join without hesitation.When he found out that Chen Chang had a girlfriend, Ze Ming's heart felt like it was being stabbed by a knife. However, he was unwilling t... More

Are you sick? I have the medicine! Let your terminal illness haunt your body, medicine to disease. Are you not sick? Why did you provoke me? There was something wrong, he had to be cured! He specializes in the treatment of all kinds of difficult illnesses and pretends to be pretentious. There's noth... More

Are you sick? I have the medicine! Let your terminal illness haunt your body, medicine to disease. Are you not sick? Why did you provoke me? There was something wrong, he had to be cured! He specializes in the treatment of all kinds of difficult illnesses and pretends to be pretentious. There's noth... More

Are you sick? I have the medicine! Let your terminal illness haunt your body, medicine to disease. Are you not sick? Why did you provoke me? There was something wrong, he had to be cured! He specializes in the treatment of all kinds of difficult illnesses and pretends to be pretentious. There's noth... More

Are you sick? I have the medicine! Let your terminal illness haunt your body, medicine to disease. Are you not sick? Why did you provoke me? There was something wrong, he had to be cured! He specializes in the treatment of all kinds of difficult illnesses and pretends to be pretentious. There's noth... More

Over the past three decades there have been new developments in therapeutic drug design. In Rational Drug Design: Methods and Protocols, expert researchers in the field detail many of the methodologies used to study rational drug design. These include methods such as virtual screening of chemical ... More

Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for short fiction, "Under The Red Flag" features twelve stories which take place during China's Cultural Revolution -- stories which display the earnestness and grandeur of human folly and, in a larger sense, form a moral history of a time and a place.... More

A Christian Science Monitor Best Book of the YearFrom the award-winning author of Waiting and War Trash: a riveting tale of espionage and conflicted loyalties that spans half a century in the entwined histories of two countries--China and the United States--and two families. When Lilian Shang, bor... More

From the award-winning author of Waiting and War Trash: an urgent, timely novel that follows an aspiring author, an outrageous book idea,and a lone journalist's dogged quest for truth in the Internet age.New York, 2005. Chinese expatriate Feng Danlin is a fiercely principled reporter at a small news... More

Ha Jin’s masterful new novel casts a searchlight into a forgotten corner of modern history, the experience of Chinese soldiers held in U.S. POW camps during the Korean War. In 1951 Yu Yuan, a scholarly and self-effacing clerical officer in Mao’s “volunteer” army, is taken prisoner south of the 38th ... More

This is the story of Lin Kong, a man living in two worlds, struggling with the conflicting claims of two utterly different women as he moves through the political minefields of society designed to regulate his every move and stifle the promptings of his innermost heart. For more than seventeen years... More

National Book Award-winner Ha Jin offers a collection that delves into the experience of Chinese immigrants in America. He depicts the full spectrum of immigrant life and the daily struggles--some minute, some grand--faced by these intriguing individuals. ... More

These twelve short stories vividly bring to life the daily dramas of Chinese men and women who are starting to feel the influence of the West while still immersed in a society that attempts to control their every move and thought. As his characters wrestle with the petty injustices and deeper heart... More

From the acclaimed, award-winning author of "Waiting" and "War Trash" comes a new novel that eloquently re-imagines the American immigrant saga. Jin tells the story of the Wu family, as it sets out on a journey through contemporary America in search of a sense of belonging.... More

From the National Book Award-winning author of Waiting: a narratively driven, deeply human biography of the Tang dynasty poet Li Bai—also known as Li PoIn his own time (701–762), Li Bai's poems—shaped by Daoist thought and characterized by their passion, romance, and lust for life—were never given t... More

In order to live a better life, women are often forced by their own will. In order to become the city's top celebrity, I had to go from an honest bargain to a noble garbage.... More

This book discusses how technological innovations have affected the resolution of disputes arising from electronic commerce in the European Union, UK and China. Online dispute resolution (ODR) is a form of alternative dispute resolution in which information technology is used to establish a process ... More

From the universally admired, National Book Award-winning, bestselling author of Waiting—a timely novel that follows a famous Chinese singer severed from his country, as he works to find his way in the United States   At the end of a U.S. tour with his state-supported choir, popular singer Yao Tian... More

&“The spirit of a rural town during China's Cultural Revolution is captured&” in this Flannery O&’Connor Award-winning short story collection (Publishers Weekly).   The acclaimed poet Ha Jin was raised in China and emigrated to the United States after the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989. In Under ... More

The award-winning author of Waiting and War Trash returns to his homeland in a searing new novel that unfurls during one of the darkest moments of the twentieth century: the Rape of Nanjing. In 1937, with the Japanese poised to invade Nanjing, Minnie Vautrin--an American missionary and the dean of J... More

Winner of the PEN/Hemingway AwardThe place is the chilly border between Russia and China. The time is the early 1970s when the two giants were poised on the brink of war. And the characters in this thrilling collection of stories are Chinese soldiers who must constantly scrutinize the enemy even as ... More

National Book Award-winner Ha Jin's arresting debut novel , In the Pond, is a darkly funny portrait of an amateur calligrapher who wields his delicate artist's brush as a weapon against the powerful party bureaucrats who rule his provincial Chinese town.Shao Bin is a downtrodden worker at the Harve... More

An eBook short.From one of our most celebrated contemporary writers, winner of the National Book Award and PEN/Faulkner Award: Ha Jin's staggering story "Alive," from the collection The Bridegroom. Tong Guhan is a regular businessman, husband, and father, trying to find a job for his daughter and an... More

New poems by the author of Waiting, winner of the National Book Award.... More