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- Asian American Literature in Transition, 1930–1965
- Asian American Literature In Transition
- Asian American Literature in Transition, 1930–1965
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Series Preface
- Introduction
- Part I Transitions Approached through Concepts and History
- Part II Transitions Approached through Authors, Texts, Concepts, and History
- Chapter 8 Lin Yutang and the Invention of Asian America, 1949
- Chapter 9 H. T. Tsiang Against the World
- Chapter 10 “A Congressman from India”
- Chapter 11 Younghill Kang, Transpacific Agent
- Chapter 12 Transition and Obliteration
- Chapter 13 America Is in the Heart as Postcolonial Pastoral
- Chapter 14 Bienvenido Santos
- Chapter 15 Women Writing War in Asia/America
- Chapter 16 Japanese Incarceration, Settler Colonialism
- Chapter 17 Jade Snow Wong and the Making of Model Minority Democracy
- Chapter 18 A Little Bit of Form Goes a Long Way
- Chapter 19 Richard Eun-kook Kim
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 9 - H. T. Tsiang Against the World
from Part II - Transitions Approached through Authors, Texts, Concepts, and History
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 May 2021
- Asian American Literature in Transition, 1930–1965
- Asian American Literature In Transition
- Asian American Literature in Transition, 1930–1965
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Series Preface
- Introduction
- Part I Transitions Approached through Concepts and History
- Part II Transitions Approached through Authors, Texts, Concepts, and History
- Chapter 8 Lin Yutang and the Invention of Asian America, 1949
- Chapter 9 H. T. Tsiang Against the World
- Chapter 10 “A Congressman from India”
- Chapter 11 Younghill Kang, Transpacific Agent
- Chapter 12 Transition and Obliteration
- Chapter 13 America Is in the Heart as Postcolonial Pastoral
- Chapter 14 Bienvenido Santos
- Chapter 15 Women Writing War in Asia/America
- Chapter 16 Japanese Incarceration, Settler Colonialism
- Chapter 17 Jade Snow Wong and the Making of Model Minority Democracy
- Chapter 18 A Little Bit of Form Goes a Long Way
- Chapter 19 Richard Eun-kook Kim
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter contextualizes the career of the maverick, proletarian, Chinese American writer H. T. Tsiang – both the contrarian, “floating” sensibility that led him to self-publish his work in the 1930s and 1940s, challenging the China-watching mainstream which constellated around the bestselling author Pearl Buck, as well as the renewed interest in his work decades later, when it was recast as performing a kind of avant-garde negation. Tsiang’s career offers a model for thinking about rivalry and failure, the latter-day romance of lost causes, as well as the lineages drawn upon to sustain the aspirational scope of Asian American studies.
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- Asian American Literature in Transition, 1930–1965 , pp. 160 - 176Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021