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)

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...

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