Peter Yang's Selected Publications

Books

Cases on Green Energy and Sustainable Development, also available as a also available as a textbook at Gale.
P Yang - IGI Global, 1st edition (August 1, 2019). A critical research book that focuses on the important role renewable energy and energy efficiency play in energy transition and sustainable development and covers economic and promotion policies of major renewable energy and energy-efficiency technologies.
Renewables are Getting Cheaper.
P Yang - - The Green Economics Institute; 1st edition (2015).
Rolling Back the Tide of Climate Change in the USA and China: Renewable Solutions and Policy Instruments
P Yang - The Green Economics Institute; 1st edition (August 1, 2015).
Abstract: This study attempts to answer many difficult, challenging questions about responsibilities, actions, and performances; e.g., has the USA led or lagged in tackling eco challenges, has it done at least its fair share relating to its eco footprint, and if not, why; how should China control its growing pollution, which threatens to counterbalancing the CO2 reductions of committed economies, without jeopardizing its necessary, poverty eradicating, development; how should both avoid meaningless zero sum green trade wars against each other that worsens the challenges to renewable energy deployment worldwide?
Modern German Plays: An Advanced German Textbook
P Yang - Peter Lang Publishing, New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2015. 242 pp.
Abstract: This textbook utilizes some of the most famous modern plays written in German as vehicles to teach advanced German courses. It includes bibliographical references.
Play is play: theatrical illusion in Chinese wall by Frisch and other" epic" plays by Brecht, Wilder, Hazelton, and Li
P Yang - University Press of America, Lanham, MD, 2000.
Abstract: Although traditional comparative literary research has always placed "epic" plays of Brecht, Fisch, Wilder, Hazelton, and Li in the category of the same name, the label "epic" actually minimizes the nature of these plays and the ways in which they have influenced modern world theater. It includes bibliographical references and index.
Theater ist Theater: ein Vergleich der Kreidekreisstücke Bertolt Brechts und Li Xingdaos
P Yang - Peter Lang Publishing, New York, Bern, Berlin, Frankfurt/M., Paris, Wien, 1998. 158 pp.
Studies in Modern German Literature. Vol. 91.
General Editor: Peter D. G. Brown, SUNY New Paltz
Abstract: Theater ist Theater ein Vergleich der Kreidekreisstücke Bertolt Brechts und Li Xingdaos / Peter Yang, p. cm. — (Studies in modern German literature; vol. 91) compares aesthetical and theatrical elements employed in Brecht's chock circle play with those in its Chinese original. It includes bibliographical references and index.
 《发展外向型经济指导》(Guide to the outward oriented economies)
 中国城市经济社会出版社, 1988.
Abstract: This book features outward oriented economies in Asia.

Journal Papers and Book Chapters

"Unschuld [Innocence] by Dea Loher"
P Yang - 2017, August 30, Literary Encyclopedia. Vol. 1.4.1: German-language Writing and Culture: Germany, 500-present. (Refereed).

Abstract: This article analyzes the thematic and dramaturgical elements of Dea Loher's neo-dramatic play "Unschuld," a highly acclaimed drama dealing with the enormous everyday life challenges of people living at the periphery of modern Western societies.

"Dea Loher"
P Yang - 2017, August 30, Literary Encyclopedia. Vol. 1.4.1: German-language Writing and Culture: Germany, 500-present.. (Refereed)

Abstract: This article analyzes the thematic and formal elements of Dea Loher's neo-dramatic play "Unschuld," a highly acclaimed drama dealing with the enormous everyday life challenges of people living at the periphery of modern Western societies.

"The Chinese Wall [Die chinesische Mauer]"
P Yang - 2017, May 17, Literary Encyclopedia. Vol. 1.4.1: German-language Writing and Culture: Germany, 500-present. (Refereed)

Abstract: This article analyzes the thematic and formal elements of Max Frisch's The Chinese Wall"," a farce about the abuse of power and violence and weakness of the intellectuals.

"Des Teufels General [The Devil's General]"
P Yang - 2017, May 10, Literary Encyclopedia. Vol. 1.4.1: German-language Writing and Culture: Germany, 500-present. (Refereed)

Abstract: This article analyzes the thematic and formal elements of Carl Zuckmeyer's play "The Devil's General," a successful, yet highly controvertial drama dealing with the experience, guilt, and fate of a non-comforming air force general in the air force under Hitler.

The Real Cause of U.S Subprime, Financial, Economic Crises 2007-2009.
P Yang -2015, The IAFOR Academic Review, 1(8):42-52. (Refereed).

Abstract: This study attempted to identify underlying issues for the U.S Subprime, Financial, Economic Crises in 2007-2009, such as economic and housing bubble fueled by lasting low oil price; as well as changed oil demand and the following skyrocketing oil prices.

Major Economies: Black Energy Intensity and Policy Implications
P Yang - 2015, IAFOR Journal of Sustainability, Energy and the Environment. Vol. 2, No. 1, pp.63-98.
Abstract: This study attempted to identify common trends for the “black” economic development of the major developed and developing countries as well as exceptions to these trends. It investigated these economies' energy and carbon dependences in the last 44 years.
Black energy intensity versus green energy intensity: implications for sustainable development
P Yang - 2014, International Journal of Green Economics (IJGE). Vol. 8, No. 2.
Abstract: This study attempted to identify the common trends for the 'black' and 'green' economic development of the major developed and developing countries as well as exceptions to these trends. It investigated these economies' energy and carbon dependences in the last 42 years and their renewable energy growths in the last ten years.
Green Energy Intensity: Development of Renewable Energy Generation and Consumption in Major Economies
P Yang - March 2014, Journal of Economics and Development Studies. Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 31-49.
Abstract: This study attempted to identify common trends for the “green” economic development of the major developed and developing countries as well as exceptions to these trends. It investigated these economies' renewable energy growths in the last 10 year.
From Energy Efficiency Program to Carbon Intensity Program: Toward a More Effective Mitigation of China’s Climate Impact?
P Yang, I Chen - 2010, International Journal of Arts and Sciences. Vol. 3, No. 13, pp. 267 - 292.
Abstract: China's economic development faces a sustainability dilemma. Although its energy efficiency was significantly improved during the last 30 years, its coal-dominant energy structure was hardly changed for better. As a result, it already overtook the USA and became the world’s largest CO2 emitter in 2007 even though its PPP weighted per capita GDP and CO2 emissions were only 1/5 and 1/4 those of the U.S.
Accelerating the green transformation in the USA: new deal for the economic crisis
P Yang, I Chen - International Journal of Green Economics, 2011 Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 184 - 203.
Abstract: Although the United Nations called for a 'Global Green New Deal'and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) includes green incentives, there is far from a consensus on whether the Green New Deal will be a key solution to the economic crisis. ...
Greening economy as a key solution to the economic crisis
Abstract: The “American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009”(ARRA) includes “green” stimulus incentives, the existing incentives in the USA are examined in this article in terms of its effectiveness as a policy instrument to implement the “Global Green New Deal” called by the UN in response to the current financial and economic crisis.
Public finance and environment: correlations of selected taxes with pollution and CO2 emissions in China between 1999 and 2006
P Yang - 2009, International Journal of Green Economics (IJGE), Vol.3, No.1, pp.48 - 62.
China's breakneck economic growth in recent decades was accompanied by visible environmental pollution and degradation. In the same period, tax revenues also increased sharply. Replacing existing taxes with the environment taxes called for by many ...
How Can We Carry Out Green Incentives Most Efficiently?
P Yang - 2009, World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology. Vol. 3, June 27.
Abstract: The United States has enacted a green energy incentive package within its Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). It is, however, unclear how these government incentives can be carried out most effectively according to market-based principles and if they can serve as a catalyst for an accelerated green transformation and ...
 The Rapid Expansion of Economic Information in the 1990s and the Challenge to China’s Economic Reform
Abstract: In the early 1980s, people began to talk about the emergence of a new technological revolution, and described it as the “third wave”, maintaining that developed countries (DCs) had entered the “information society”,“post-industrial society”, etc.
 Analysis of Literature Seminar Web Sites
P Yang, - 2003 Academic Exchange Quarterly , Vol. 7, No. 2 , Summer 2003.
Abstract: This is a review of the use of the WWW for classroom-based literature seminars. Due to the complexity of those seminars, both teaching and learning are challenging tasks. Can dedicated Web sites help meet those challenges? What can they do beyond meeting ...
Beginning Cantonese (8/2000) - CALICO
P Yang - 2001, Calico Journal. Vol. 18 No. 3, pp. 618-628.
Abstract: This paper reviews the CD-Rom based textbook Beginning Cantonese.
Intermediate Cantonese (1/2006) - CALICO.
P Yang - 2007, Calico Journal. Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 421-434.
Abstract: This paper reviews the CD-Rom based textbook Intermediate Cantonese.
 A system engineering approach: Integrating technology into the classroom-based curriculum
P Yang - 2012, Systems and Informatics (ICSAI), pp.1000-1004.
Abstract: Technology has become ubiquitous in the 21st Century, touching almost every aspect of our lives, our business and consumer activities, and our communications in professional, social, political and cultural communities. Yet it is still far from an easy task to integrate technology into curriculum design and development ...
Traditional Chinese Tales: An Interactive Reader for Intermediate Chinese
P Yang - CALICO Journal. Vol. 22 No. 2, pp. 346-357.
Abstract: Traditional Chinese Tales: An Interactive Reader for Intermediate Chinese is a combination 
of traditional reading textbook plus workbook on the one hand and CD-ROM based 
interactive language learning software on the other. It is designed for intermediate ...
The Use of the WWW for Classroom-Based Literature Seminars
P Yang - 2003, Academic Exchange Quarterly, Vol. 7, No. 2.
Abstract: This is a review of the use of the WWW for classroom-based literature seminars. 
Due to the complexity of those seminars, both teaching and learning are challenging tasks. 
Can dedicated Web sites help meet those challenges? What can they do beyond meeting ...
The Technique of Blended Illusion in Brecht's Caucasian Chalk Circle
P Yang - 2014, International Journal of Languages and Literatures. Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 31-51.
Abstract: This article draws on the cognitivist notion of blending to reexamine the theory of 
alienation effect as illusion and emotion destroyer in Brecht's Epic Theater. The model 
established in this study illustrates the relationship between the blended illusion in ...
Networked multimedia and foreign language education
P Yang - 2013, Calico Journal. Vol. 15, No. 1-3, pp. 75-88.
Abstract: Both multimedia applications and computer networks are well known, excellent tools for foreign language learning. However, networked multimedia--the ideal combination of both tools--is relatively new and potentially troublesome to many language ...
 西德驻外商会
杨建华 - 1983 《国际贸易》1983年 第6期 55-55页.
西德的驻外商会, 是由西德和外国商人合办的私人组织. 商会的主要任务是促进西德和有关国家的双边经济往来, 利用自己在外贸方面的知识和关系, 为双方的商人服务, 也可以为他们在西德或有关国家作代理. 西德驻外商会拥有3万多会员, 其中三分之二由外国商人组成.办事机构主要设在与西德贸易关系密切的国家.
 实行增值税是整个经济体制改革中的重要步骤 (上)
周小川， 杨建华 - 1988 《国际贸易》1988年09期 7-13页.
增值税制流转税产业结构合理化经济体制改革实行税负产品税征收范围企业专业化.
 实行增值税是整个经济体制改革中的重要步骤(下)
周小川， 杨建华 - 1988 《国际贸易》1988年 第10期 18-22页.
摘要： 周小川和杨建华合撰的"实行增值税是整个经济体制改革中的重要步骤"一文(下),指出,实行增值税意味着推行发展市场机制的一揽子改革,并强调,我国目前虽然 ...
完善增值税制 促进外贸发展
杨建华 - 1987,《 经济社会体制比较》1987年第4期, 37-40页.
增值税制及其对外贸发展的促进作用增值税是二次大战后发展起来的一个新的税种. 最早是由德国企业家西门子提出的. 法国在1954 年率先实行了这一税制, 对生产, 进口, 销售和服务各种流转额开征增值税. 到了六七十年代, 荷兰, 西德等国也相继用增值税取代了 ...

Book Reviews

Yasco Horsman. Theaters of Justice: Judging, Staging, and Working Through in Arendt, Brecht, and Delbo (book review)
P Yang - Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature, 2014, Volume 38 | Issue 1 Article 16, 1-1-2014.
Yasco Horsman. Theaters of Justice: Judging, Staging, and Working Through in Arendt, Brecht, and Delbo. Stanford UP, 2010. 232 pp.
P Yang - Theatre Research International, 2014.
Weill's Musical Theater is one of the first scholarly examinations of the German composer's complete works for the stage. Meticulously researched and offering abundant references, the book also engages with Kurt Weill's sources, reception, reviews and existing critical ...
Laid-Off Workers in a Workers' State: Unemployment with Chinese Characteristics (book review)
P Yang - The Journal of Asian Studies, 2011.
This volume is a collection of ten studies of mass unemployment and layoffs as a result of the restructuring of state-owned enterprises (SOEs). The key term is xiagang, a new word coined in China during the 1990s to mean “leaving one's post,” as opposed to jiegu (being ...
Heinrich von Kleist and Modernity. Edited by Bernd Fischer and Tim Mehigan (book review)
P Yang - Theatre Research International, 2014.
This volume is a collection of articles on the contribution of Heinrich von Kleist's plays, short stories and essays to the conception of 'modernity'which were originally presented at a symposium. The material is presented in two parts and is written in English and German. ...
Environmental Policy Convergence in Europe? The Impact of International Institutions and Trade (book review)
P Yang - International Journal of Green Economics, 2009,
Environmental Policy Convergence in Europe? The Impact of International Institutions and Trade, by Katharina Holzinger, Christoph Knill and Bas Arts (Eds.). Cambridge University Press, 2008. ISBN-10: 0521888816; ISBN-13: 978-0521888813
Fishing Wars and Environmental Change in Late Imperial and Modern China (book review)
P Yang - China Review International, 2009.
This monograph is a volume of the Harvard East Asian Monograph Series published by the Harvard University Asia Center. It is a major study of China's fishing history from the late Qing period to the 1970s. In addition to the focus on fishing wars and conflicts, fishing ...
 
Migration and Social Protection in China (book review)
P Yang - China Review International, 2009.
This volume is a collection of twelve essays that critically examine a unique major social phenomenon in the transformation of a fast growing China—rural-to-urban migrant workers and their social protection. Contributors to this volume, academics specializing on this ...
P Yang - 2010 - Asian Business & Management June 2010, Volume 9, Issue 2, pp 285–288.
Breslin's volume in the International Political Economy series is a serious, solid study of China's position in the global political economy, in which the author answers the questions how and to what extent economic and social transformations in China impact on the ...
Reform and the Non-State Economy in China: The Political Economy of Liberalization Strategies (book review)
P Yang - China Review International, 2008.
This book is a solid, in-depth study of China's successful reform strategies that have managed leadership conflict, guided economic reforms, and ensured rapid, sustained economic growth for more than a quarter century. It consists of nine chapters. Chapter 1 ...
China and Asian Regionalism. By Yunling Zhang. Hackensack, NJ: World Scientific, 2009. x, 229 pp. (cloth). Free Trade Agreements in the Asia Pacific (book review)
P Yang - The Journal of Asian Studies, 2010 November, Volume 69, Issue 4, 1174-1177.
Zhang's fifteen-chapter volume reviews the emergence and development of Asian regionalism, which in his view promotes the region's cooperation and integration, and discusses China's role in Asian regionalism. It involves major policy research on the ...
The Chinese Economy. Transitions and Growth (book review)
P Yang - 2008 December, Asian Business & Management, vol. 7, Iss. 4, pp 511–513.
Written by one of the most respected authorities in this field, this text results from the material for a course on the Chinese economy that the author has taught annually since 1988 at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of ...
Neo-Confucianism in History (book review)
P Yang - 2010, The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 69, Issue 04 / November 2010, pp.1177-1179.
Peter K. Bol describes his book as “an interpretive, at times polemical, inquiry into the Neo-
Confucian engagement with the literati as a social and political elite, with local society, and 
with the imperial state during the Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties.” The first half surveys ...
Free Trade Agreements in the Asia Pacific, vol 11 (book review)
P Yang - 2010, The Journal of Asian Studies. Vol. 11. 69:44, 1174-1177, CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, 11/2010.
Landmarks in German comedy (book review)
P Yang - 2007, German Quarterly Vol. 80, Issue 1, pp. 116-117
BRECHT'S POETRY OF POLITICAL EXILE (book review).
P Yang - 2002, German Quarterly, Vol. 75, Issue 1 pp. 96-7.
中國白話小說說書人的藝術 Porter,Deborah著； 楊建華譯 九州學刊 7:1=25 1996.01 109頁-124頁.

Research Activities
Member of the China's Economic Reforms Research Team led by Professor Jinglian Wu, 1987-1988, which submitted a study "China's Economic Reforms" in May 1988 to China's National Economic Reform Commission.