Andrew F. Jones

Andrew Fredrick Jones (born June 24, 1969) is an American sinologist, ethnomusicologist, writer and translator. He is the Agassiz Professor of Chinese Endowed Chair at the University of California, Berkeley and a Guggenheim Fellow. Jones is best known as the author of a trilogy of books on contemporary Chinese music, Like a Knife (1992), Yellow Music (2001) and Circuit Listening (2020), and as a translator of the fiction of Yu Hua and Eileen Chang. He is also the writer of Developmental Fairy Tales (2011), an interdisciplinary monograph on Chinese engagement with evolutionary theory across literature, popular science and 20th-century cultural discourse.