The emergence of mechanized Chinese writing in the nineteenth
century and digital Chinese writing in the twentieth posed profound
practical and conceptual challenges to a writing system whose
history spans millennia. The dynamism, reach, and...
This talk will sketch the history of academic study of China in
the U.S., beginning in 1920, with attention to how it differed from
European Sinology. I see it as a story with intersecting
trajectories, including U.S.-China relations and...
