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  • Chapter 9 - H. T. Tsiang Against the World

  • from Part II - Transitions Approached through Authors, Texts, Concepts, and History
  • Edited by Victor Bascara, University of California, Los Angeles, Josephine Nock-Hee Park, University of Pennsylvania
  • Book:
    Asian American Literature in Transition, 1930–1965
    Published online:
    27 May 2021
    Print publication:
    17 June 2021, pp 160-176

  • 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.