![]() ![]() Hua is an Associate Professor of English at Vassar College and Fellow at the New America Foundation. ![]() ![]() Tsiang, the avant-garde author of The Hanging on Union Square ( read an excerpt in The Margins), who wrote himself into his novels as a pathetic loser and ended up playing a character in a movie based on a novel by his nemesis, Pearl Buck. Influenced by a fascination by hip hop beefs, Hua tells the story of the winners (like Pearl Buck and Henry Luce) and the losers, most notably H.T. New Yorker contributor and AAWW Board Member Hua Hsu’s new book A Floating Chinaman (Harvard University Press 2016) explores how Twentieth Century American authors and intellectuals talked about and imagined China. Executive Director Ken Chen will then cap off the night interviewing Hua Hsu as they engage in electrifying eye contact. We’ll start the event with short talks on failure by Jon Caramanica of the New York Times, former Das Racist member Ashok Kondabolu, Jezebel Culture Editor Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, music journalist Dave Tompkins, and Buzzfeed Fellow Esther Wang. Tsiang, an oddball early Chinese immigrant experimental writer whose dismal literary career led him to self-publish his own visionary novels. The book takes its title from a lost manuscript by H. Come through for a special event on ruminating on failure and celebrating the new book by Hua Hsu, A Floating Chinaman: Fantasy and Failure across the Pacific. ![]()
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