{"id":16,"date":"2022-05-17T11:24:13","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T15:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.citadel.edu\/mlng\/?post_type=person&#038;p=16"},"modified":"2025-07-21T10:46:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T14:46:27","slug":"yun-chu-tsai-ph-d","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/www.citadel.edu\/mlng\/faculty-staff\/yun-chu-tsai-ph-d\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Yun-Chu Tsai"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-dr-yun-chu-tsai\">Dr. Yun-Chu Tsai<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-associate-professor-and-director-of-the-chinese-program\">Associate Professor and Director of the Chinese Program<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Chinese<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Tiffany Yun-Chu Tsai is Director of the Chinese Program and Associate Professor of Chinese in the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures at The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina. Her first monograph, Cannibalism as Pathology: China\u2019s Modernity in Crisis, examines the paradoxical logic of auto-cannibalism that underlies China\u2019s modernization. Dr. Tsai demonstrates how China conceptualizes its national (in)security by incorporating colonial discourses of \u201ccivilizing missions\u201d and biomedical knowledge (in cellular cannibalism). The discourses thereby develop a revolutionary rhetoric of cannibalizing \u201cenemies of the state.\u201d Her study of the cannibalism discourse theorizes the path and pathology of China\u2019s modernity, especially in the contexts of \u201cServe the People\u201d in the revolutionary era and \u201cServing People\u201d in the post-revolutionary era.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Tsai is on a sabbatical leave in Fall 2025 in preparation for writing and publishing her first monograph. She is a two-time awardee of The Citadel\u2019s Provost Office\u2019s Faculty Summer Research Grants. Dr. Tsai has published a book chapter, \u201cCannibalism as Pathology: China\u2019s Modernity in Crisis,\u201d in New Vocabularies of May Fourth Studies. She has also published three journal articles, \u201cA \u2018Consuming Identity\u2019 in China\u2019s Modernity: Contextualizing Cannibalism in Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature,\u201d \u201cCannibal Labyrinth: Narrative, Intertextuality, and Politics of Cannibalism in Mo Yan\u2019s The Republic of Wine,\u201d and \u201cSinicizing Islam: Translating the Gulistan of Sa\u2018di in Modern China.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At The Citadel, Dr. Tsai has developed and taught twelve new literature and culture courses and has taught all levels of Chinese language courses. In Summer 2024, Dr. Tsai was awarded a national fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities Institutes for Higher Education Faculty and thereby participated in the Academy of Korean Studies Summer Institute: Infusing Korean Studies in American Undergraduate Higher Education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since Fall 2017, Dr. Tsai has advised the Chinese Club and has led study abroad programs in Taiwan. The study abroad programs are intended to provide Chinese-language students (including those without Chinese study experience) with immersive exposure to the language. If you have any questions, <a href=\"ytsai@citadel.edu\">please contact Dr. Tsai<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-degrees\">Degrees<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ph.D.<\/strong>&nbsp;East Asian Languages and Literatures (University of California, Irvine)<br><strong>M.A.<\/strong>&nbsp;English (State University of New York)<br><strong>B.A.<\/strong>&nbsp;English (National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Yun-Chu Tsai Associate Professor and Director of the Chinese Program Chinese Dr. Tiffany Yun-Chu Tsai is Director of the Chinese Program and Associate Professor of Chinese in the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures at The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina. 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