Hua Hsu was born on 1977 and is an American writer and academic, based in New York City.
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Hua Hsu is a professor of English at Bard College and a staff writer at The New Yorker.
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Hua Hsu's work includes investigations of immigrant culture in the United States, as well as public perceptions of diversity and multiculturalism.
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Hua Hsu is the author of A Floating Chinaman: Fantasy and Failure Across the Pacific.
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Hua Hsu's family moved to southern California, then ultimately Cupertino, California, where his father was an engineer; his mother stayed at home with Hua.
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The family lived in Cupertino from about the time Hua Hsu was 9 to 18, though his father moved to Taiwan to pursue work and Hua Hsu often spent summers and other school vacations there.
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Hua Hsu attended college at the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied political science.
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Hua Hsu next attended Harvard University to study Asian-American literature, earning a PhD in the History of American Civilization in 2008.
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Hua 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.
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Hua Hsu's work includes investigations of immigrant culture in the United States, as well as public perceptions of diversity and multiculturalism.
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Hua 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.
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Hua Hsu is a board member of the Asian American Writers' Workshop.
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Hua Hsu was a 2016 National Fellow for the New America Foundation.