I'll start with a question about the autoethnographic. Maybe because I've been reading a lot of anthropological texts lately, I’ve been thinking about ethnography. The conversation took place in February 2023 over Zoom. I wanted to interview him because of our shared connections: Taiwan, California, teaching, parenting, and some primary interests: music, art, literature. The book, which won the 2022 National Book Critics Circle award in autobiography, discusses the faxes his father would send him while away and an ultimately tragic friendship he had while in college. In his youth, his father moved back to Taiwan to pursue work and Hua often spent summers and other school vacations there. The latter is about his life as a second-generation Taiwanese American, living for much of his life in California. He is the author of A Floating Chinaman: Fantasy and Failure Across the Pacific (Harvard University Press, 2016) and Stay True: A Memoir (Doubleday, 2022). He is a professor of English at Bard College and a staff writer at The New Yorker.
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