a floating chinaman fantasy and failure across the pacific

At Bard since 2022.Įmail: (Please enable Javascript in your browser. Professor Hsu’s research and academic interests include Asian American studies, transpacific studies, critical ethnic studies, popular culture and subculture, and literary nonfiction.īA, University of California, Berkeley PhD, Harvard University. Posted in Diaspora, Literature Bookmark the. His first book, A Floating Chinaman: Fantasy and Failure Across the Pacific, will be published by Harvard University Press in June. Cullman Center at the New York Public Library. This piece is adapted from A Floating Chinaman: Fantasy and Failure across the Pacific, recently published by Harvard University Press. He previously taught at Vassar College and was formerly a fellow at the New American Foundation and the Dorothy and Lewis B. Hsu previously wrote for Artforum, The Atlantic, Grantland, Slate, and The Wire his scholarly work has been published in American Quarterly, Criticism, PMLA, and Genre. He was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in criticism in 2018 ( New Yorker) was a finalist for the James Beard Award for Food Writing in 2013 (for “Wokking the Suburbs,” Lucky Peach) and his work has been anthologized in Best Music Writing (20) and Best African American Essays 2010. Hsu is a contributor to CBS News’s Sunday Morning serves on the governance board of Critical Minded, a collaboration between the Ford Foundation and the Nathan Cummings Foundation and serves as judge for various literary competitions and fellowships, including the PEN America Literary Awards, Rona Jaffe Fellowship, and Dayton Literary Peace Prize.

He is currently working on an essay collection titled Impostor Syndrome. Hua Hsu is a contributor to The New Yorker and the author of A Floating Chinaman:Fantasy and Failure Across the Pacific. Tsiang, an eccentric Chinese immigrant writer who self-published a series of visionary. Primary Academic Program: Literature Biography:Hua Hsu is a staff writer at The New Yor ker and the author of A Floating Chinaman: Fantasy and Failure Across the Pacific (2016) and the memoir Stay True (September 2022). A Floating Chinaman takes its title from a lost manuscript by H. box 21, folders 16, JFP Hua Hsu, A Floating Chinaman: Fantasy and Failure across the Pacific (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016), 200210.

A floating chinaman fantasy and failure across the pacific