Louis Menand advised his dissertation, entitled Pacific Crossings: China, the United States, and the Transpacific Imagination. He next attended Harvard University to study Asian-American literature, earning a PhD in the History of American Civilization in 2008.
Hsu attended college at the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied political science. The family lived in Cupertino from about the time Hua was 9 to 18, though his father moved to Taiwan to pursue work and Hua often spent summers and other school vacations there. His family moved to southern California, then ultimately Cupertino, California, where his father was an engineer his mother stayed at home with Hua. His second book, Stay True: A Memoir, was published in September 2022.Ī second-generation Taiwanese American, Hsu was born in 1977 in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois before moving to Plano, then Richardson, Texas. He is the author of A Floating Chinaman: Fantasy and Failure Across the Pacific. His work includes investigations of immigrant culture in the United States, as well as public perceptions of diversity and multiculturalism. He is a professor of English at Bard College and a staff writer at The New Yorker. The stakes of rediscovering China, over and over again, have never been higher, or more absorbing to read.Hua Hsu (born 1977) is an American writer and academic, based in New York City.
A complex weave of authority and knowledge is presented here through many self-appointed spokesmen for China, all unforgettable. “ Hua Hsu gives us a playful, colorful, formidable book, overflowing with archival research and without a single dull moment. He serves on the executive board of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop and the international advisory board of the NYU Center for Experimental Humanities. He is formerly a fellow at the New America Foundation. He is currently an associate professor of English at Vassar College, where he also directs the program in American Studies. He also served on the editorial board of A New Literary History of America (2009). His work has been anthologized in Best Music Writing and Best African American Essays, and his 2012 essay for Lucky Peach on suburban Chinatowns was a finalist for a James Beard Award for food writing. He has previously written for Artforum, The Atlantic, Grantland, Slate, and The Wire. Hua Hsu is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of A Floating Chinaman: Fantasy and Failure Across the Pacific.
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