Jing Tsu

Jing Tsu
石静远
Tsu in 2019
Born	(1973-02-23) February 23, 1973 (age 51) Taiwan
Alma mater	Harvard University
Employer	Yale University

Jing Tsu (Chinese: 石静远; pinyin: Shí Jìngyuǎn;^[1] born 23 February 1973) is a Taiwanese-American author and professor of East Asian studies. Born in Taiwan, she immigrated to New Mexico at the age of nine; there, her mother taught her and her siblings Chinese calligraphy and writing. After receiving a PhD]] from Harvard University in East Asian Languages and Civilizations in 2001, she became a professor at Yale University.

At Yale, Tsu was named the chair of the Council on East Asian Studies at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies and Jonathan D. Spence Professor of Comparative Literature and East Asian Languages and Literatures in 2024. Tsu has published three books; her third, Kingdom of Characters, was a finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize and a nominee for the Baillie Gifford Prize.