Yang liu, east meets west after all, the kind of culture shock liu illustrates can be hard to navigate and articulate. 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. Presentation of the best design and advertisements in japan and westamerica full of fascinating. Naturally, were headoverheels with designer yang lius ingenious east meets west infographic series, tackling everything from differences in selfperception to evolution of transportation. Yang liu s popular graphics depicting the differences between east and west.
Liu institute for asia and asian studies, university of. Liu institute for asia and asian studies, university of notre dame. She was years old when her family moved to europe. Already an online phenomenon, east meets west is the first volume in designer yang liu s successful infographic series. Individualism and collectivism in the east and west. William howard taft and the 1905 mission to asia the photographs of harry fowler woods ohio historical society on july 8, 1905, one of the first and largest u.
By revealing chinese civilisation to europe through his writings, marco polo created the impetus for the age of discovery. France, germany, hong kong, india, indonesia, italy, japan, korea, republic of, kuwait, lebanon, malaysia, mexico, morocco, new zealand. Already an online phenomenon, east meets west is the first volume in designer yang lius successful infographic series. Yang lius east meets west explains the differences. The cultural differences between east and west, according. East meets west with ming tsai recipes east meets west. Drawing from her experiences of growing up in china and germany, lius east meets west. 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. This book has its origin in the workshop and conference cul. Yang liu spent half of her life in china and half in germany. Chinese artist sums up the difference between eastern and. Blue western culture red eastern culture way of life westerners assert a lot more independence and individualism. The book was first published in 1997, and was awarded the first prize of scientific research by the ministry of.
Drawing from her own experience yang liu created minimalistic visualizations using simple symbols and shapes to convey just how different the two cultures are. In the back of the book there is more information about where he went to school and where he lived as an adult. The artist and visual designer yang liu was born in china and lives in germany since she was 14. The postchristian west meets the nonwestern church greater. 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. Across the east and the west, our study examines a similarities and differences on the usage of different categories of emojis such as people. John barrows china, the first book with aquatints of that country, jesuitbased works such. Her works have won numerous prizes in international competitions and can be found in museums and collections all over the world. 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. He has published extensively on social structures in east. Formal verification of operational transformation, the 19th international symposium on formal methods fm 2014, singapore, may 2014.
An ebook reader can be a software application for use on a computer such as microsofts free reader application, or a book sized computer this is used solely as a reading device such as nuvomedias rocket ebook. Pauls east side, she is the highest ranking hmong american elected official in the united states in 2002. Reconsidering cultural heritage in east asia oapen. The cultural differences she witnessed inspired her to design a book of graphics titled east meets west. Read or download now book 383655402xdownload yang liu. The cultural differences between east and west, according to one artist. An infographic portrait juxtaposes eyecatching infographics that cleverly distill her observations of the two cultures. The joliet junior college musica viva series presents east meets west with international chinese musician yang wei on sunday, march 26 on the main campus, 1215 houbolt road in joliet. 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. The major difference between eastern and western culture is that people in the east are more conservative and traditional than the general population in the west. Japan as fantasy and fan cult in the mind of the west victorian buildings of the american west. Here following, we highlight the contextual differences between the east and the west in terms of. Yang is a great graphic designer whose work has always been bold and.
On november 4, berlinbased artist and designer yang liu gave a presentation of her awardwinning cultural pictograms at nyu shanghai. Culture shock, singapore travel, catalog design, creative pictures, orient, text color, picture show, book illustration, the incredibles. The differences between east and west in terms of culture. She won several prices and had a worldwide success with her first book east meets west. Ihr gleichnamiges buch ost trifft west wurde ein bestseller. The activity uses the simple but startlingly canny imagery created by yang liu for her infographic book, east meets west. Try searching on jstor for other items related to this book. You have access to the front matter, abstracts, author index, subject index and the full text of open access publications. See the complete profile on linkedin and discover lius connections and. These differences can be noted for the most part in peoples behavior and attitudes. Yang liu east meets west pdf this soloshow east meets west by yang liu, which was placed at ministry of download full pdf ebook here.
Heres another article from anna corpron of substudio. Find the best of east meets west with ming tsai from food network. Studies of the weatherhead east asian institute, columbia university. West meets east, creative currents in 100 ads across the pacific, california aand tokyo. Chinas long march toward rule of law cambridge core. East and west may have myriad differences based on culture and education.
There were countless times when i was variously confused, surprised. The blue side represents germany or western culture and the red side china or eastern culture. East meets west is now in perfect order thanks to her i understand now my chines wife. This book is a great book for both entertainment and eyeopening cultural conversations. Drawing on her experience, she has created a series of minimalist infographics to highlight how people see their world from a chinese versus german perspective in her piece east meets west. The blue side represents a german point of view, the red represents chinese. As a guest user you are not logged in or recognized by your ip address. The liu institute for asia and asian studies promotes the awareness, understanding. East meets west 9th international symposium on iconicity in language and literature, 35 may, 20 the ninth in a series of biennial international and interdisciplinary symposia organized by the iconicity research project since 1997, this meeting will once again focus on iconicity understood as. An infographic portrait by yang liu submitted by rainer falle 271 comments 612,725 views the artist and visual designer yang liu was born in china and lives in germany since she was 14. Thats when she began appreciating the differences between her homeland china and her new home country. East meets west an intercultural competence activity.
Understanding the motives and perceptions of young tourists from united arab emirates. View liu yangs profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional community. Pdf studying cultural differences in emoji usage across the east. Tourism management vol 40, pages 1450 february 2014. Through visuals like the following one on expressing opinions, liu explores cultural differences between china, where shes from and germany, where she lives. Cultural differences between east and west, reduced to. Cl11 3 participants fromnepal, pakistan,and chinatakepartin theconferenceon chinaandsouth asiainthe1990s sponsoredbythe shanghaiinstitute oflnternational studies. East meets west the american west in the nineteenth. Since 2010 yang liu is professor and the head of the department of communications design at the berlin technical art university. Eastern concepts and contexts to enrich existing management theories. Chineseborn artist yang liu moved to germany at the age of 14. East meets west believes in unifying the cultures of the world, melding the east and the west to create a synergy of one people, one place. Together, we bring the best products to help restore energy, discover mindfulness, build community, and nourish the spirit. 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.
In addition to designing the logo for 2009 frankfurt book fair guest of honor china, liu also designed cipgs book from oracle bones to e. Chinas long march toward rule of law is a valuable effort to deal with fundamental legal issues arising out of the chinese law reform process any serious scholar of the role of law in nonwestern environments will welcome the publication of this book. Congress upon his election to the house of representatives in 1956. Lius book was originally published in german in 2007 and has only recently come. They say that a pictures is worth a thousand words, a pictogram doubly so.
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