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Jing Tsu (Chinese: 石靜遠; pinyin: Shí Jìngyuǎn; [1] born February 23, 1973) is a Taiwanese-American author and professor of East Asian studies.Born in Taiwan, she immigrated to the United States at the age of nine; there, her mother taught her and her siblings Chinese calligraphy and writing.
For most of the pre-modern period, Chinese culture dominated East Asia. Scholars in Vietnam, Korea and Japan wrote in Literary Chinese and were thoroughly familiar with the Chinese classics. Their languages absorbed large numbers of Chinese words, known collectively as Sino-Xenic vocabulary, i.e. Sino-Japanese, Sino-Korean and Sino-Vietnamese.
East Asian literature is the diverse writings from the East Asian nations, China, Japan, Korea, Mongolia and Taiwan. Literature from this area emerges as a distinct and unique field of prose and poetry that embodies the cultural, social and political factors of each nation.
Kingdom of Characters is the third book authored by Jing Tsu, a professor of comparative literature and East Asian languages and literature at Yale University. [1] Her previous two books, Failure, Nationalism, and Literature: The Making of Modern Chinese Identity, 1895-1937 and Sound and Script in Chinese Diaspora, also covered Chinese linguistic history.
Michael Kevin Bourdaghs (/ ˈ b ɔːr d æ ʃ /, BOAR-dash [1]) is an American scholar of Japanese culture specializing in modern Japanese literature and J-pop. He is currently a professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago.
David Der-wei Wang was born in Taipei.He graduated from Cheng Kung Senior High School and took his B.A. in Foreign Languages and Literature from National Taiwan University and his M.A. (1978) and Ph.D. (1982) in Comparative Literature from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
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East Asian studies is a distinct multidisciplinary field of scholarly enquiry and education that promotes a broad humanistic understanding of East Asia past and present. The field includes the study of the region's culture, written language , history and political institutions.