Jing Tsu
· Jonathan D. Spence Professor of Comparative Literature & East Asian Languages and LiteraturesYale University · Comparative Literature
Active 1998–2023
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About
Jing Tsu is the Jonathan D. Spence Professor of Comparative Literature & East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale University. She specializes in modern Chinese literature and culture, as well as Sinophone studies, with a research focus that spans literature, intellectual history, science and technology, diaspora and migration studies, and global affairs and international studies. Her academic work covers the Sinophone world from the 19th century to the present, and she offers graduate seminars on topics such as sympathy, world Sinophone literature, and approaches to East Asian intellectual and literary history. Professor Tsu has held fellowships at prestigious institutions including the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, and the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton. She is a recipient of various fellowships, including the Guggenheim and Mellon New Directions Fellowship. Her recent book, 'Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern,' was a 2023 Pulitzer Finalist. Her research interests encompass Asian languages and literatures, critical theory and philosophy, cultural history, history of science and technology, translation, modern Chinese literature, Sinophone and diaspora studies, linguistics and philology, and the history of science and technologies of writing. She holds a Ph.D. in Chinese Studies from Harvard University and has also earned an M.A. in…
Research topics
- Computer Science
- History
- Computer network
- World Wide Web
Selected publications
Sound and Script in Chinese Diaspora
Harvard University Press eBooks · 2010-12-31 · 96 citations
book1st authorCorrespondingSound and Script in Chinese Diaspora
Harvard University Press eBooks · 2011-01-15 · 78 citations
book1st authorCorrespondingWhat happens when language wars are not about hurling insults or quibbling over meanings, but are waged in the physical sounds and shapes of language itself? Native and foreign speakers, mother tongues and national languages, have jostled for distinction throughout the modern period. The fight for global dominance between the English and Chinese languages opens into historical battles over the control of the medium through standardization, technology, bilingualism, pronunciation, and literature…
Science and Technology in Modern China, 1880s-1940s
2014-02-20 · 22 citations
book1st authorCorresponding2014-01-01 · 9 citations
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingWorld literature and national literature(s)
2011-09-14 · 6 citations
article1st authorCorresponding
Frequent coauthors
- 26 shared
Benjamin A. Elman
University of Arizona
- 25 shared
Young-" The
Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica
- 25 shared
Craig Daigle
Shanghai Municipal People's Government
- 25 shared
Wan-Yao Chou
Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica
- 25 shared
Chuck Wooldridge
Shanghai Municipal People's Government
- 25 shared
Ravi Kalia
The University of Tokyo
- 25 shared
Moe Liu-D'albero
Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica
- 25 shared
Eric Weitz
The University of Tokyo
Awards & honors
- Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (Harvar…
- Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sc…
- Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies (Princeton)
- Guggenheim Fellowship
- Mellon New Directions Fellowship
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