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Jean Tsui

@jeantsui.bsky.social
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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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Kate Merkel-Hess @katemh.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
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...
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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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Thomas Dixon @profthomasdixon.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
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-...
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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...
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Jean Tsui @jeantsui.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
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...
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Affective Betrayal
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