Jean Tsui
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Jean Tsui
@jeantsui.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Chinese Literature at CUNY. Studies affect, emotion, and late imperial Chinese intellectual history.

Author of Affective Betrayal: Mind, Music, and Embodied Action in Late Qing China (SUNY, 2024)
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My new book, Women and Their Warlords, was published last month. You can order it at the press website w/a 30% discount using the code UCPNEW. But why would you want to buy a book when you don’t know what it’s about? Here’s the argument. 🧵 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Women and Their Warlords
Explores the complex history and legacy of elite wives, concubines, and daughters of warlords in twentieth-century China.   In Women and Their Warlords, historian Kate Merkel-Hess examines the lives a...
press.uchicago.edu
November 9, 2024 at 2:05 AM
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Hello blue sky people! About me….

I wrote this book just before I left my job as a history professor last year to retrain as a school teacher. uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
The History of Emotions: A Very Short Introduction a book by Thomas (Queen Mary University of London) Dixon.
Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Emotions are complex mental states that resist reduction. They are visceral reactions but also beliefs about the world. They are spontaneous outbu...
uk.bookshop.org
November 16, 2024 at 1:16 PM
Affective Betrayal: Mind, Music, and Embodied Action in late Qing China is in print! The book explores the role affect and emotion play in China's transition to modernity and Liang Qichao's political reformism. sunypress.edu/Books/A/Affe...
Affective Betrayal
sunypress.edu
November 30, 2024 at 8:38 PM