American anthropologist
Francis L. K. Hsu
(28 October 1909
Zhuanghe County
,
Liaoning
, China – 15 December 1999
Tiburon, California
) was a China-born American anthropologist, one of the founders of
psychological anthropology
. He was president of the
American Anthropological Association
from 1977 to 1978.
Career
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Hsu was born on October 28, 1909, in
Zhuanghe
,
Liaoning
,
China
. He entered
Tianjin Nankai High School
in 1923, graduated from the Department of Sociology at the
University of Shanghai
in 1933, entered the Graduate School of
Fu Jen Catholic University
in the same year, and later engaged in social work at
Peking Union Medical College Hospital
.
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He obtained the
Boxer Indemnity Scholarship (United Kingdom)
in 1937 and went to London to study anthropology at the
London School of Economics
, where he studied under
Bronisław Malinowski
. He obtained a doctorate in 1941 and was invited by
Fei Xiaotong
to return to China. In 1943, he was invited by
Ralph Linton
to visit the United States and he has since stayed in the country as a teacher.
He served as a lecturer at
Columbia University
from 1944 to 1945. Acting Assistant Professor at
Cornell University
from 1945 to 1947. In 1947, he was hired as a formal assistant professor at
Northwestern University
. He was promoted to professor ten years later and served as the head of the anthropology department from 1957 to 1976 for two decades. In 1964, he went to Japan to serve as a visiting professor at
Kyoto University
and conducted a field survey.
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Contributions
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Hsu was among the founders of
psychological anthropology
. He has updated and renewed the methodology of cultural and personality research and expanded knowledge of large-scale civil society. His theory has influenced the development of Chinese psychology and the production of psychoculture. His research provides a non-Western perspective on the study of human behavior and is of great reference value to the research of behavioral science.
Retirement and death
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Hsu retired from Northwestern in 1978 and was hired by the
University of San Francisco
as the director of the Cultural Research Center. He also served as a senior researcher at the
East?West Center
at the
University of Hawaii
. He retired again in 1982, but continued lectures and academic work.
He continued to write in 1986 in spite of a
myocardial infarction
, and then had another two strokes and had to stop academic research. He died in
San Francisco
on December 15, 1999, at the age of 91.
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Recognition
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The
American Anthropological Association
established the
Francis L. K. Hsu Book Prize
to commemorate his contribution.
Selected publications
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Books
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- ——— (1949). "Suppression Versus Repression, a Limited Psychological Interpretation of Four Cultures".
Psychiatry
.
12
(3). Place of publication not identified: 223?242.
doi
:
10.1080/00332747.1949.11022736
.
PMID
24536183
.
- Shih, Kuo-heng, Rukang Tian, Xiaotong Fei, Francis L. K. Hsu, Elton Mayo and Dorothea McConnel Mayo (1944).
China Enters the Machine Age; a Study of Labor in Chinese War Industry
. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.
ISBN
0837102227
.
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- ——— (1948).
Under the Ancestors' Shadow; Chinese Culture and Personality
. New York: Columbia University Press.
- ——— (1952).
Religion, Science and Human Crises; a Study of China in Transition and Its Implications for the West
. London: Routledge & K. Paul.
- ——— (1953).
Americans and Chinese: Two Ways of Life
. New York: H. Schuman.
- ——— (1961).
Psychological Anthropology; Approaches to Culture and Personality
. Homewood, Ill: Dorsey Press.
- ——— (1963).
Clan, Caste, and Club
. Princeton, N.J: Van Nostrand.
- ——— (1967).
Under the Ancestors' Shadow : Kinship, Personality, and Social Mobility in Village China
. Garden City, N.Y: Anchor Books.
- ——— (1969).
The Study of Literate Civilizations
. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
- ——— (1970).
Americans and Chinese: Purpose and Fulfillment in Great Civilizations
. Garden City, N.Y: Published for the American Museum of Natural History [by] the Natural History Press.
- ——— (1971).
Under the Ancestors' Shadow; Kinship, Personality, and Social Mobility in China
. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press.
ISBN
0804707677
.
- ——— (1971).
The Challenge of the American Dream: The Chinese in the United States
. Belmont, Calif: Wadsworth Pub. Co.
ISBN
0534000436
.
- ——— (1971).
Kinship and Culture
. Chicago: Aldine Pub. Co.
ISBN
0202010783
.
- ——— (1972).
Psychological Anthropology
. Cambridge, Mass: Schenkman Pub. Co.; distributed by General Learning Press [Morristown, N.J.
- ——— (1973).
The Minority Experience in Anthropology : Report of the Committee on Minorities and Anthropology
. Washington: American Anthropological Association.
- Hsu-Balzer, Eileen, Richard Balzer and Francis L. K. Hsu (1974).
China Day by Day
. New Haven: Yale University Press.
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- ——— (1975).
Iemoto: The Heart of Japan
. Cambridge, Mass: Schenkman Pub. Co.; [distributed by] Halsted Press, New York.
- ——— (1981).
Americans and Chinese : Passage to Differences
. Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii.
ISBN
0824807103
.
- Chu, Godwin C. and Francis L. K. Hsu (1983).
China's New Social Fabric
. London: Kegan Paul International in association with the East-West Center, Honolulu.
ISBN
0710300506
.
- ——— (1983).
Exorcising the Trouble Makers : Magic, Science, and Culture
. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press.
ISBN
0313237808
.
- Marsella, Anthony J., George A. De Vos and Francis L. K. Hsu (1985).
Culture and Self : Asian and Western Perspectives
. New York: Tavistock Publications.
ISBN
042279130X
.
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- Marsella, Anthony J., George A. De Vos and Francis L. K. Hsu (1985).
Culture and Self : Asian and Western Perspectives
. New York: Tavistock Publications.
ISBN
042279130X
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- Hsu, L. K. Francis and Hendrick Serrie (1998).
The Overseas Chinese : Ethnicity in National Context
. Lanham, Md: University Press of America.
ISBN
076181163X
.
Articles and chapters
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- ———— (1979).
"The Cultural Problem of the Cultural Anthropologist"
.
American Anthropologist
.
81
(3): 517?532.
doi
:
10.1525/aa.1979.81.3.02a00010
.
. Presidential Address, American Anthropological Association, Los Angeles, 1978. Free access
HERE
- ———— (1980).
"Passage to Understanding"
. In Spindler, George D. (ed.).
The Making of Psychological Anthropology
. Vol. 239. Univ of California Press. pp. 142?173.
ISBN
0520039572
.
- ———— (1999). "My Life as a Marginal Man: Autobiographical Discussions with Francis Lk Hsu (Interviewed and Recorded by Glt Hsu and Flk Hsu's Family)".
Taipei, Taiwan: National Institute for Compilation and Translation/SMC
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