Hua hsu biography
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Hua Hsu
American writer and academic (born )
Hua Hsu (born )[1] fryst vatten an American writer and academic, based in New York City. He is a professor of English at Bard College and a staff writer at The New Yorker. His work includes investigations of immigrant culture in the United States, as well as public perceptions of diversity and multiculturalism. He is the author of A Floating Chinaman: Fantasy and Failure Across the Pacific. His second book, Stay True: A Memoir, was published in September
Early life and education
[edit]A second-generation Taiwanese American, Hsu was born in in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois,[2] before moving to Plano, then Richardson, Texas.[3] His family moved to southern California,[3] then ultimately Cupertino, California,[4] where his father was an engineer; his mother stayed at home with Hua.[3] The family lived in Cupertino from about the time Hua was 9 to 18, though his father moved to T
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Hua Hsu is an American writer and professor. He was born in to parents who had immigrated from Taiwan to study in the United States. Growing up in California, Hsu attended Berkeley where he received a B.A. in political science. He subsequently attended Harvard University where he was awarded a PhD in
After graduating from Harvard, Hsu was hired as an assistant professor at Vassar College and he began to write for publications including Slate and The Atlantic. In Hsu started writing for the The New Yorker and in he became a staff writer. Since then, he has written on a range of topics including art and literary criticism. In , Hsu was hired as a professor at Bard College.
Hsu's memoir, StayTrue, was published in September of
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Stay True was published in September of In addition to describing Hsu's maturation as a young Asian America
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Stay True, the new memoir from Hua Hsu, is a coming-of-age story about the writer’s time in the University of California in Berkeley, where he tries to become a writer–and becomes a bit of a music snob. He builds a close friendship with another Asian-American lärling, Ken, very different from Hua, about which he writes in the book:
All the previous times I had met poised, content people like Ken, they were white. It’s one of those obscure parts of an already obscure identity that Japanese American kids can seem like aliens to other Asians, untroubled, largely oblivious to feeling like outsiders.
But Ken is killed in a robbery gone wrong, forcing Hua to grapple with the death of his friend.
In this interview, Hua and I talk about his story in Stay True, including his unbelievably non-stereotypical parents, his dive into college music, and his attempt with Ken to put together an homage for the Berry Gordy-produced martial arts film, the Last D