Professor Arne Westad and Professor Jing Tsu Join Paul Tsai China Center as Senior Fellows

Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center has announced that Professor Arne Westad and Professor Jing Tsu have joined the center as senior fellows.

Arne Westad is the Elihu Professor of History and Global Affairs at Yale University, and one of the world’s most respected historians of international relations, including the history of the Cold War and the modern history of China. He has published 18 books, and his most recent book (with Chen Jian) is “The Great Transformation: China’s Road from Revolution to Reform” (2024). His new book, “The Coming Storm: Power, Conflict, and Warnings from History,” which addresses parallels between the origin of World War I and the evolving relations between the United States and China, will be published in early 2026 and has already received much attention.

Jing Tsu is the Jonathan D. Spence Chair Professor of Comparative Literature and East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale University, and one of the most prominent scholars in the fields of modern Chinese literature and culture. Her work spans literature, intellectual history, science and technology, diaspora and migration studies, international studies, and geopolitics. She was a 2023 Pulitzer Prize Finalist for her most recent book, Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern (Riverhead, 2022). In addition to her outstanding scholarship, she also frequently writes for a wider public audience, and she served as cultural commentator for NBC at the Winter Olympic Games in Beijing in 2022.

“Our China Center is excited that these two outstanding Yale University professors are joining us as Senior Fellows,” said Paul Gewirtz, Potter Stewart Professor of Constitutional Law and the founder and director of the Paul Tsai China Center. “They will be tremendous assets to our Center and we are delighted to welcome them.”