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Hua Hsu was born on 1977 in Champaign–Urbana, Illinois, is an American writer and academic. Discover Hua Hsu's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 47 years old?

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Occupation Professor, writer
Age 47 years old
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Born 1977
Birthday 1977
Birthplace Champaign–Urbana, Illinois
Nationality United States

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1977

Hua Hsu (born 1977) is 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 2022.

A second-generation Taiwanese American, Hsu was born in 1977 in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois before moving to Plano, then Richardson, Texas.

His family moved to southern California, then ultimately Cupertino, California, where his father was an engineer; his mother stayed at home with Hua.

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.

Hsu attended college at the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied political science.

1999

He graduated in 1999.

2008

He next attended Harvard University to study Asian-American literature, earning a PhD in the History of American Civilization in 2008.

Louis Menand advised his dissertation, titled Pacific Crossings: China, the United States, and the Transpacific Imagination.

Hsu was a tenured associate professor of English and director of American Studies at Vassar College until 2022, when he became professor of English at Bard College.

2012

His 2012 essay for Lucky Peach about suburban Chinatowns was nominated for a 2012 James Beard Award for food writing.

He is a board member of the Asian American Writers' Workshop.

2016

His book, A Floating Chinaman: Fantasy and Failure Across the Pacific, was published in June 2016 by Harvard University Press.

He was a 2016 National Fellow for the New America Foundation.

Hsu's second book, Stay True: A Memoir, about an important friendship he had while in college, was published by Doubleday on September 27, 2022.

It received a starred review in Publishers Weekly.

Jennifer Szalai of The New York Times wrote, "Hsu is a subtle writer, not a showy one; the joy of 'Stay True' sneaks up on you, and the wry jokes are threaded seamlessly throughout."

The book was named one of the "10 Best Books of 2022" by The New York Times and The Washington Post.

The book won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Memoir or Autobiography and the 2022 National Book Critics Circle award in autobiography.

Hsu lives in Brooklyn.

He is married with a son.

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2017

Since 2017, he has also been 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.

Other research work and interests include studies of literary history and arts criticism.

Hsu has been a fellow at New America, a public policy think tank and a contributor to The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Slate, and The Wire.