TY - SER
KW - Pittsburgh Pirates
KW - Westinghouse Electric Corporation
KW - Chinese Americans
KW - mathematicians
KW - Union Switch & Signal
AU - Alex Kuo
AB - “Two finite-number mathematicians—a Chinese woman and a Chinese American man—become disillusioned with teaching,” says the dust jacket. “She goes to work in China’s Three Gorges Dam, he for Westinghouse in Pittsburgh.”
C1 - 1960-1980s
C3 - Allegheny County; Allegheny River; Monongahela River; Pittsburgh; Shadyside; Oakland; Forbes Field; North Side; North Shore; Three Rivers Stadium; Swissvle; Fayette County; Stewart Twp; Fallingwater
C4 - Literary; Environmental; Suspense
CY - Hong Kong, China
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N2 - “Two finite-number mathematicians—a Chinese woman and a Chinese American man—become disillusioned with teaching,” says the dust jacket. “She goes to work in China’s Three Gorges Dam, he for Westinghouse in Pittsburgh.”
PB - Haven Books
PP - Hong Kong, China
PY - 2011
RN - Alex Kuo (1941- ) was born in Boston. He earned his MFA at the Iowa Writers' Workshop and taught at Washington State University as well as universities in China.
EP - 179 p.
TI - The Man Who Dammed the Yangtze: A Mathematical Novel
ER -