Episode 204 Jing Tsu, Ph.D.

Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund are honored to have as our guest, Jing Tsu, Ph.D.

Jing Tsu is the John M. Schiff Professor of East Asian Languages and the Comparative Literature Chair of the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale, specializing in modern Chinese literature and culture from the 19th century to the present. She received her doctorate in Chinese Studies from Harvard. Tsu was a Guggenheim fellow in 2016 and has held fellowships at Harvard, Stanford, and Princeton institutes.

To purchase her new book, Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern, please visit:https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/550748/kingdom-of-characters-by-jing-tsu/

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