Jing Tsu

Pulitzer Finalist and Guggenheim Fellow Jing Tsu is a cultural historian and literary scholar of modern China. She holds the inaugural Jonathan D. Spence Chair in Comparative Literature & East Asian Languages and Literatures. Author of three monographs and two edited volumes, her research spans literature, nationalism, intellectual history, science and technology, diaspora and migration studies, international studies, and geopolitics. Tsu has written for The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, and Financial Times. She and her works have been profiled in “Lunch with the FT,” CNN/PBS's “Amanpour,” The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The New Yorker, The Economist, Wired, Science, Nature, Physics World,  The Times, The Spectator, The Telegraph, The Guardian, Times Literary Supplement, London Review of Books, South China Morning Post (Hong Kong), NRC (The Netherlands), Frankfurter Allgemeine (Germany), among others. Distinctions and honors include the Society of Fellows (Harvard), Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (Stanford), the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (Harvard), New Directions Fellowship from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), and John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. She serves on the Board of Directors at the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, and served as cultural commentator for NBC at the Winter Olympic Games in Beijing in 2022. For more details, please visit: https://campuspress.yale.edu/jingtsu/