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Failure, Nationalism, and Literature “Jing Tsu’s provocative and innovative book opens up new critical spaces for us to explore the modalities of failure in the construction of narratives of national…
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Sound and Script in Chinese Diaspora “…groundbreaking work in Sinophone studies…essential reading for scholars and students of Chinese literature, comparative literature, world literature, cultural studies, and diaspora studies.” (more…) –Karen…
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Sound and Script in Chinese Diaspora. Harvard University Press, 2010. 1. Literary Governance (PDF) 2. Chinese Lessons 3. Lin Yutang’s Typewriter (PDF) 4. Bilingual Loyalty 5. Chen Jitong’s “World Literature”…
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2018: Lecture: Invited Speaker for the Second Annual Rutgers Critical Theory, Comparative Literature, Rutgers University. 2017: Lecture: China Humanities Seminar, Harvard University. Topic TBA Topic TBA 2016: Co-organizing and speaking…
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Books (monographs): Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern. Riverhead, Penguin Random House, 2022. Sound and Script in Chinese Diaspora.Harvard University Press, 2010. (sample chapters) Failure, Nationalism,…
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Media: Cultural commentator for NBC at the Opening Ceremony of 2022 Winter Olympics, Beijing (February 2022) Media: China Expert for NBC, conversation about China Media: China Expert for NBC, Closing…
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