David Hanson Liu & 劉雲适 
Success Comes from Solving Problems 
20 Taiwan Elites Tell Their Stories (English Edition)

Learn from other people’s successes in problem solving? You can really do so by studying the fascinating and inspiring stories of how Fai-Nan Perng overcame growing up in poverty to become the world’s only ’10A’ top central banker; how Master Sheng Yen, Taiwan’s first monk with a doctorate obtained from abroad, faced his problems; how Jason Chen made coffee wearable; how Youn-Jan Lin, who always wore second-hand clothes in his impoverished youth, earned induction into the International Inventors Hall of Fame; how Eric Li-luan Chu fell ill due to overseeing an engineering project for long hours but refused to return home; why William Lai Ching-te is referred to as a ‘benevolent physician’ and a ‘virtue fanatic’; and many more! The articles that David Hanson has written in Success Comes from Solving Problems: 20 Taiwan Elites Tell Their Stories describe the problem-solving experiences of famous leaders in a way that is worth reading and instructive for everyone – especially now that problem-solving capabilities have become a prerequisite for career success in virtually any area.

David Hanson Liu (劉雲适), a bilingual lexicographer and a leading authority on Chinese-English translation, was once the only Taiwanese member of the American Translators Association, back in the 1970s. The electronic version of his Chuan-Shi ChineseEnglish Thesaurus (Chuan-Shi Chinese-English and English-Chinese Thesaurus) was adopted by the National Taiwan University for students to practice English. Besides Success Comes from Solving Problems: 20 Famous Elites Tell Their Stories, he is also author of English Writing and Reporting (1976).