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Education and Career
EDUCATION
Ph.D. History, Yale University, 1996
M.A. History, Yale University, 1993
B.A. History, Pomona College, 1989 cum laude
Courses taught:
Hsu has taught courses titled Chinese in the United States, Introduction to Asian American Studies, History of Chinese Overseas, History of Modern China, and Taiwan: Colonization, Migration, and Identity.
Thematic Field(s): Diaspora and Migration, Empire and Globalization, Gender, Sexuality and Family, International Relations, Race, Ethnicity and Nation
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Honors
Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home: Transnationalism and Migration Between the United States and South China, 1882-1943. Stanford University Press, 2000. Awarded Association for Asian American Studies History Book Award in 2002.
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Publications
Books
Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home: Transnationalism and Migration Between the United States and South China, 1882-1943. Stanford University Press, 2000. Awarded Association for Asian American Studies History Book Award in 2002.
Editor. “Transnational Politics and the Press in Chinese American History: Collected Essays of Him Mark Lai.” Forthcoming from the University of Illinois Press.
Works in Progress
“Migration in the Shadow of Empires: Ideological Constructions of Taiwanese Chinese Mobility and Ethnic Transformation, 1943-2004.” Monograph exploring the Cold War intersections between American and Chinese foreign policy goals to migration policies and ethnic representations of Taiwanese Chinese in the United States.
“Chinese Americans and the Politics of Culture.” Essay collection co-edited with Sucheng Chan with contributions from Sucheng Chan, Josephine Fowler, Madeline Hsu, Karen Leong, Andrea Louie, Mae Ngai, K. Scott Wong, Judy Wu, and Xiaojian Zhao. Under review at Rowman and Littlefield Press.
“From Chop Suey to Mandarin Cusine: Fine Dining and the Refashioning of Chinese Ethnicity during the Cold War Era.” Article in “Chinese Americans and the Politics of Culture,” edited by Sucheng Chan and Madeline Hsu.
Articles and Book Chapters
“Trading with the Gold Mountain: Jinshanzhuang and Networks of Kinship and Native Place, 1849-1949.” In Chinese American Transnationalism: The Flow of People, Resources, and Ideas between China and America during the Exclusion Era, edited by Sucheng Chan. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2006.
“Exporting Homosociality: Culture and Community in Chinatown America, 1882-1943.” In Cities in Motion, edited by Wen-hsin Yeh, David Strand, and Sherman Cochran. Forthcoming from the Center for East Asian Studies Press, University of California, Berkeley.
“The Recurring Problem of Chinese Ethnicity in World Migration: Comments on Dirk Hoerder’s Cultures in Contact.” International Review of Social History 49:03 (December 2004): 494-499.
“Qiaokan and the Transnational Community of Taishan County, 1882-1943.” “Transnational Dimensions of the Chinese Press, 1850-1949," a special issue of the China Review edited by Bryna Goodman and Arif Dirlik. 4:1 (Spring 2004): 123-144.
“The Life and Times of Him Mark Lai,” in Him Mark Lai, Becoming Chinese American: A History of Communities and Institutions. Walnut Creek, CA: Alta Mira Press, 2004.
“Unwrapping Orientalist Constraints: Restoring Homosocial Normativity to Chinese American History.” Amerasia Journal 29:2 (Summer 2003): 231-253.
“California Dreaming: Migration and Dependency.” Chinese America: History and Perspectives (2002): 9-31.
“Between Nation and Native Place: Migration and the Changing Identity of Chinese Overseas, 1909-1937.” Proceedings II: The 4th International Chinese Overseas Conference. Taipei, Taiwan: Academia Sinica (2001), 289-323.
“Migration and Native Place: Qiaokan and the Imagined Community of Taishan County, Guangdong, 1893-1993.” Journal of Asian Studies 59:2 (May 2000): 307-331.
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