Andy Plaks has been at Princeton since 1962 as an undergraduate, a graduate student, and a member of the faculty. Valedictorian of his high school class in Long Island, at Princeton he discovered Chinese language and all to which it gave entrée.
is an American sinologist who specializes in the study of the vernacular fiction of the Ming and Qing dynasties. From 1973 to 2007 he taught at Princeton University, becoming a full professor in 1980. He moved to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2007, where he is currently Professor of East Asian Studies
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