Wu Chao

Also known as: 吴超(南京鼓楼医院), 吴超编著

Born
1957–present
Nationality
Chinese
Notable works
A Tree Grows in BrooklynOliver TwistSlow Man

12 written works

About the author

Wu Chao, born in 1957 in Jieyang, Guangdong, holds a doctorate in engineering and is a professor at the School of Resources and Safety Engineering, Central South University; he retired in 2022 and is a recipient of the Special Government Allowance of the State Council. He has long taught and researched safety science and engineering, founded new disciplines such as safety science studies, safety statistics and comparative safety studies, and has published more than 40 monographs and textbooks, with Chemical Dust Suppression winning the China Book Award. The works held in the library span a wide range: foreign literature such as A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Oliver Twist, The Slow Man, Clarkson's Farm and The Goldfinch Chaser; popular science like a field guide to common mantises; and technical and management titles on multi-UAV cooperative control and marketing digitalization, as well as books on politics and social sciences, reflecting broad editorial interests.

Written (12)

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn cover
Rating 4.6
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 贝蒂·史密斯 / Wu Chao Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2025 A timeless coming-of-age classic! In print for over 80 years, with countless awards and accolades. The original novel was adapted into an Academy Awar…
Oliver Twist cover
Rating 4.4
Oliver Twist Charles Dickens / Wu Chao Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing Ltd. · 2025 Oliver Twist is one of Dickens's early works, published in serial form between 1837 and 1839. The orphan Oliver grows up hungry, drifting between the …
Cooperative Control Technology for Multiple UAVs cover
Rating 3.6
Cooperative Control Technology for Multiple UAVs 周伟 / 李五洲 / Wang Xudong / Wu Chao Peking University Press · 2025 Multi-UAV Cooperative Control Technology is a research hotspot in the UAV field for the foreseeable future, with strong theoretical research value and…
Digital Marketing: Going All the Way to C and Building an Enterprise-Level Marketing and Growth System cover
Rating 3.5
Digital Marketing: Going All the Way to C and Building an Enterprise-Level Marketing and Growth System Wu Chao / Zhao Jing / 罗家鹰 / 陈新宇 China Machine Press · 2025 In the future, competition in enterprises' overall strength will be competition in the success or failure of their digital transformation. For enterpr…
Modernization of Governance: The Logic and Path of Social Governance with Chinese Characteristics since Reform and Opening Up cover
Rating 3.3
Modernization of Governance: The Logic and Path of Social Governance with Chinese Characteristics since Reform and Opening Up Wu Chao Peking University Press · 2025 Historical experience since the start of reform and opening up shows that the modernization of social governance with Chinese characteristics has not …
Slow Man cover
Rating 4.2
Slow Man J. M. Coetzee (John Maxwell Coetzee) / Wu Chao Sichuan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2024 This is Coetzee's first novel after winning the Nobel Prize. Raymond, sixty years old, divorced for many years, childless, out of touch with his relat…
A Field Guide to Common Mantises cover
Rating 3.7
A Field Guide to Common Mantises Wu Chao Chongqing University Press · 2024 The main section of this book introduces 77 relatively common mantis species in China. Although labeled “common,” most may still be hard to encounter …
Clarkson's Farm cover
Rating 4.2
Clarkson's Farm 杰里米·克拉克森 / Wu Chao Taihai Publishing House · 2023 A red-hot motoring show host and newspaper columnist; a grumpy old man who keeps landing on British media blacklists; a man who can't tell barley from…
Chasing the Golden Youth cover
Rating 4.2
Chasing the Golden Youth 苏珊·埃洛伊丝·欣顿 / Wu Chao Zhejiang People's Publishing House · 2022 My name is Ponyboy Curtis, and my friends all call me Ponyboy. Two years ago, my parents were killed in a car crash, and my two older brothers had to …
The Elegance of Wuliu cover
Rating 3.1
The Elegance of Wuliu Wu Chao Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press · 2020 From ancient times to the present, Jiading's rich historical and cultural heritage has been an extremely important and precious organic component of S…
Reform and Innovation of Shanghai's Land Management System: Paths, Models and Efficiency cover
Rating 3.2
Reform and Innovation of Shanghai's Land Management System: Paths, Models and Efficiency Wu Chao Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press · 2019 This book presents findings from a series of decision-consultancy research projects commissioned by the Shanghai Municipal People's Government. Faced …
Shanghai Culture Map: Splendid Yunjian cover
Rating 3.0
Shanghai Culture Map: Splendid Yunjian Wu Chao Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press · 2019 Songjiang occupies a place of unique depth in Shanghai's story. Its titles, "the root of Shanghai" and "the head of the Huangpu River," are no mere pr…

Publishers

Shanghai Jiao Tong University PressPeking University PressTaihai Publishing HouseSichuan Literature and Art Publishing HouseChina Machine PressJiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing Ltd.Zhejiang People's Publishing HouseHunan Literature and Art Publishing HouseChongqing University Press