![]() ![]() His floating Chinaman, unmoored and in-between, imagines a critical vantage point from which to understand the new ideas of China circulating between the world wars and today, as well. ![]() Tsiang discovered the American literary market to be far less accommodating to his more skeptical view of U.S.-China relations. Tsiang, an eccentric Chinese immigrant writer who self-published a series of visionary novels during this time. On the margins in Chinatowns, on Ellis Island, and inside FBI surveillance memos, a different conversation about the possibilities of a shared future was taking place.Ī Floating Chinaman takes its title from a lost manuscript by H. The rapturous reception that greeted The Good Earth, Pearl Buck's novel about a Chinese peasant family, spawned a literary market for sympathetic writings about China. ![]() Hua Hsu tells the story of how they became ensnared in bitter rivalries over which one could claim the title of America's leading China expert. Who gets to speak for China? During the interwar years, when American condescension toward barbarous China yielded to a fascination with all things Chinese, a circle of writers sparked an unprecedented public conversation about American-Chinese relations. Joining him in conversation will be hip-hop journalist Jeff Chang. ![]() DIESEL, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Hua Hsu to the store to discuss and sign, A Floating Chinaman: Fantasy and Failure Across the Pacific, on Sunday, October 16th at 3:00pm. ![]()
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