Hua Hsu will discuss his new book, A Floating Chinaman (Harvard University Press.)
Praise for A Floating Chinaman:
“Hua Hsu gives us a playful, colorful, formidable book, overflowing with archival research and without a single dull moment. A complex weave of authority and knowledge is presented here through many self-appointed spokesmen for China, all unforgettable. The stakes of rediscovering China, over and over again, have never been higher, or more absorbing to read.”—Wai Chee Dimock, Yale University
“It’s no secret that Hua Hsu is one of the finest cultural critics writing today. Now, in the barely-remembered Chinese-American H. T. Tsiang, Hsu has found a fascinating, unruly figure worthy of his own prodigious gifts. I loved reading A Floating Chinaman, and I wonder what Tsiang—that fame-seeking outsider, literary hustler, and New York ghost par excellence—would have made of this book, which informs and surprises on every page.”—Ed Park, author of Personal Days
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Praise for A Floating Chinaman:
“Hua Hsu gives us a playful, colorful, formidable book, overflowing with archival research and without a single dull moment. A complex weave of authority and knowledge is presented here through many self-appointed spokesmen for China, all unforgettable. The stakes of rediscovering China, over and over again, have never been higher, or more absorbing to read.”—Wai Chee Dimock, Yale University
“It’s no secret that Hua Hsu is one of the finest cultural critics writing today. Now, in the barely-remembered Chinese-American H. T. Tsiang, Hsu has found a fascinating, unruly figure worthy of his own prodigious gifts. I loved reading A Floating Chinaman, and I wonder what Tsiang—that fame-seeking outsider, literary hustler, and New York ghost par excellence—would have made of this book, which informs and surprises on every page.”—Ed Park, author of Personal Days
Hua Hsu will discuss his new book, A Floating Chinaman (Harvard University Press.)
Praise for A Floating Chinaman:
“Hua Hsu gives us a playful, colorful, formidable book, overflowing with archival research and without a single dull moment. A complex weave of authority and knowledge is presented here through many self-appointed spokesmen for China, all unforgettable. The stakes of rediscovering China, over and over again, have never been higher, or more absorbing to read.”—Wai Chee Dimock, Yale University
“It’s no secret that Hua Hsu is one of the finest cultural critics writing today. Now, in the barely-remembered Chinese-American H. T. Tsiang, Hsu has found a fascinating, unruly figure worthy of his own prodigious gifts. I loved reading A Floating Chinaman, and I wonder what Tsiang—that fame-seeking outsider, literary hustler, and New York ghost par excellence—would have made of this book, which informs and surprises on every page.”—Ed Park, author of Personal Days
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Praise for A Floating Chinaman:
“Hua Hsu gives us a playful, colorful, formidable book, overflowing with archival research and without a single dull moment. A complex weave of authority and knowledge is presented here through many self-appointed spokesmen for China, all unforgettable. The stakes of rediscovering China, over and over again, have never been higher, or more absorbing to read.”—Wai Chee Dimock, Yale University
“It’s no secret that Hua Hsu is one of the finest cultural critics writing today. Now, in the barely-remembered Chinese-American H. T. Tsiang, Hsu has found a fascinating, unruly figure worthy of his own prodigious gifts. I loved reading A Floating Chinaman, and I wonder what Tsiang—that fame-seeking outsider, literary hustler, and New York ghost par excellence—would have made of this book, which informs and surprises on every page.”—Ed Park, author of Personal Days
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