About the author
Yang Xi is a Chinese book translator and author about whom limited public information is available. Ten of her works are included here, spanning mystery and detective fiction, popular science, health, biography, philosophy, and inspirational writing. Her representative translations include Ellery Queen's Tragedy Quartet and other detective works, classics of popular science such as One Two Three... Infinity and Physics for Entertainment, and science-focused titles such as The Girls Who Launched the Rockets and Venomous, a book on poisons. She has also worked on Mathematical Adventures, an adapted edition of One Two Three... Infinity, and the Sears Health Encyclopedia of Parenting. Her choices suggest a focus on rendering difficult scientific material into fluent, readable Chinese while balancing logical interest with accuracy, giving her some influence among readers of both popular science and detective fiction.
Written (10)
Rating 4.0★ Toxic: From Deadly Weapons to Life-Saving Antidotes, How Earth's Deadly Poisons Become Biochemical Masters 克丽丝蒂·威尔科克斯 / 阳曦 Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2026 For thousands of years, humans have been fascinated by venom—both for its ability to act swiftly and for the power of even a tiny amount to cause inju… Rating 4.7★ Ellery Queen's Tragedy Quartet Ellery Queen / 百里 / 阳曦 / 刘臻 Henan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2025 The Tragedy of X: Three crimes committed in full public view. A mystery masterpiece in the hearts of countless readers. The Tragedy of Y: A killer lon… Rating 4.4★ Adventures in Mathematics 马尔巴·塔罕 / 阳曦 Tianjin People's Publishing House · 2025 Mathematical Adventures begins with a chance encounter: the protagonists Hanak Tad Maiya and Belemitz Samir meet on a journey to Baghdad. Hanak is daz… Rating 4.4★ From One to Infinity (Adapted Edition) George Gamow / 阳曦 Yunnan People's Publishing House · 2022 This book will answer the following questions for you: 1. How big is infinity, really? 2. Does space have an inside and an outside? 3. Why can't peopl… Rating 4.2★ The Girls Who Launched the Rockets 娜塔莉亚·霍尔特 / 阳曦 Jiuzhou Press · 2022 In the 1940s and 1950s, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) recruited a group of young women to perform all the crucial computational work. They shatt… Rating 4.2★ The Sears Encyclopedia of Child Health: A Comprehensive Guide to Children's Health 詹姆斯·西尔斯 / 玛莎·西尔斯 / 罗伯特·西尔斯 / 威廉·西尔斯 / 阳曦 Jiuzhou Press · 2022 Imagine it's three in the morning and you're anxiously watching over a sick child. If only you had expert advice at hand to help you through the night… Rating 3.9★ Blue Mind 华莱士·J.尼科尔斯 / 阳曦 Jiuzhou Press · 2022 If you feel this planet of ours could use less stress and more joy, open Dr. Nichols's Blue Mind. In this book you will discover that water can change… Rating 3.7★ Slow Thinking: The Study of Thinking in an Age of Brain Overload 特奥·康普诺利 / 阳曦 Jiuzhou Press · 2022 ◎ An INSEAD open course on thinking. Recently, the Financial Times released its 2016 MBA ranking, and INSEAD beat Harvard Business School to take the … Rating 4.5★ One, Two, Three... Infinity George Gamow / 阳曦 Tianjin People's Publishing House · 2021 This book will answer the following questions for you: 1. How big is infinity, really? 2. Does space have an inside and an outside? 3. Why can't peopl… Rating 4.4★ Entertaining Physics Yakov Isidorovich Perelman / 阳曦 Yunnan Fine Arts Publishing House Co., Ltd. · 2021 The goal of this book is not to introduce new knowledge but to help you "understand what you already know." In other words, it aims to refresh your ba…Publishers
Jiuzhou PressYunnan People's Publishing HouseYunnan Fine Arts Publishing House Co., Ltd.Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd.Tianjin People's Publishing HouseHenan Literature and Art Publishing House