38. Evelyn Ch’ien, Researcher, Editor, Author

Evelyn Ch’ien graduated from Harvard with an A.B. in Philosophy and a Ph.d. in English Language and Literature/Letters. She is the author of Weird English, and co-editor of The Annotated Poetry of Liao Entao. Formerly a tenured professor. Recently, she was a principal investigator of a project funded by the European Union, and currently, she is Senior Books Editor for Hyphen. You can connect with Evelyn through Linkedin.

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07:36: Writing a book about immigrant language 24:50: Censorship in 1940’s China  31:33: The art scene in the Asian American community