Madeline Y. Hsu
Professor — Ph.D., Yale University

Contact
- E-mail: myhsu@austin.utexas.edu
- Phone: 512-475-9303
- Office: GAR 3.106
- Office Hours: Spring 2022: T 11:30-1:00; or by appointment. Please email for the Zoom link and password if you wish to drop in for office hours.
- Campus Mail Code: B7000
Interests
Migration, Transnationalism and Diaspora, Cold War, and Ethnic Studies.
Biography
Madeline Y. Hsu served as Director of the Center for Asian American Studies 2006-2014 and is currently a Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. She was born in Columbia, Missouri but grew up in Taiwan and Hong Kong between visits with her grandparents at their store in Altheimer, Arkansas. She received her undergraduate degrees in History from Pomona College and PhD from Yale University. Her first book was Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home: Transnationalism and Migration between the United States and South China, 1882-1943 (Stanford University Press, 2000). Her most recent monograph, The Good Immigrants: How the Yellow Peril Became the Model Minority (Princeton University Press, 2015), received awards from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, the Immigration and Ethnic History Society, the Asian Pacific American Librarians Association, and the Association for Asian American Studies. Her third book, Asian American History: A Very Short Introduction was published by Oxford University Press in 2016 and the co-edited anthology, A Nation of Immigrants Reconsidered: U.S. Society in an Age of Restriction, 1924-1965 is forthcoming in 2018 from the University of Illinois Press.
She is president of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society and vice-president of the International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas.
Courses Taught:
- AAS 325/ HIS 350L: Chinese in Diaspora - W
- AAS 325/ HIS 340S/ ANS 340S: Chinese in the U.S. - W
- AAS 325/ HIS 364G/ ANS 361: Taiwan: Colonization, Migration, Identity - W
- AAS 312/HIS 317L: Introduction to Asian American History
- AAS 381/HIS 392: Race and Migration
Awards/Honors:
2017 Association for Asian American Studies History Book Award for The Good Immigrants.
2016 Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations for The Good Immigrants.
2017 Theodore Saloutos Book Award from the Immigration and Ethnic History Society for The Good Immigrants.
OAH-Japan Residencies Fellow, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan, 2016.
2016 Hamilton Book Award finalist from The University of Texas at Austin.
2014-2015 Asian Pacific American Librarians Association Adult Non-Fiction Honor Book for The Good Immigrants.
2012 Community Leadership Award, Network of Asian American Organizations and Greater Austin Asian Chamber of Commerce, September 22, 2012.
Distinguished Lecturer, 2012-present, Organization of American Historians. See OAH Distinguished Lectureship Program.
2002 Association for Asian American Studies History Book Award for Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home.
HNN Leading Young Historian, 2007
Courses
HIS 378W • Capstone In History
39310 • Fall 2022
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM GAR 1.122
IIWr
AAS 312 • Intro To Asian American Hist
32340 • Spring 2022
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM UTC 4.134
CD
HI
(also listed as HIS 317L)
AAS 302 • Immigration And Ethnicity
32815 • Fall 2021
Meets TTH 12:30PM-2:00PM RLP 0.112
CD
HI
(also listed as HIS 317L, MAS 316C)
ANS 390 • Race And Migration
32810 • Spring 2021
Meets W 3:00PM-6:00PM GAR 2.112
Hybrid/Blended
(also listed as HIS 392)
HIS 378W • Capstone In History-Wb
38325 • Fall 2020
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM
Internet; Synchronous
IIWr
AAS 302 • Immigration And Ethnicity
32045 • Spring 2020
Meets MWF 1:00PM-2:00PM WAG 101
CD
HI
(also listed as HIS 317L, MAS 316C)
AAS 312 • Intro To Asian American Hist
32060 • Spring 2020
Meets MWF 10:00AM-11:00AM
HI
(also listed as HIS 317L)
AAS 325 • Chinese In The United States
31530 • Fall 2019
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM GAR 2.112
CD
HI
(also listed as ANS 340S, HIS 340S)
AAS 325 • Taiwan: Colniz/Migratn/Ident
31535 • Fall 2019
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM RLP 0.104
GCWr
(also listed as ANS 340T, HIS 340T)
AAS 310 • Immigration And Ethnicity
32050 • Spring 2019
Meets TTH 12:30PM-2:00PM GAR 2.112
CD
HI
(also listed as HIS 317L, MAS 319)
AAS 325 • The Chinese In Diaspora
32070 • Spring 2019
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM GAR 3.116
GCIIWr
(also listed as ANS 361, HIS 350L)
AAS 312 • Intro To Asian American Hist
32160 • Fall 2018
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM BUR 216
CD
HI
(also listed as HIS 317L)
AAS 381 • Race And Migration
32225 • Fall 2018
Meets W 9:00AM-12:00PM GAR 2.124
(also listed as ANS 390, HIS 392)
AAS 325 • Taiwan: Colniz/Migratn/Ident
35490 • Spring 2018
Meets TTH 12:30PM-2:00PM GAR 0.132
GCWr
(also listed as ANS 340T, HIS 340T)
AAS 312 • Intro To Asian American Hist
35990 • Fall 2017
Meets MWF 2:00PM-3:00PM WAG 214
CD
HI
(also listed as HIS 317L)
AAS 325 • Chinese In The United States
36020 • Fall 2017
Meets MWF 11:00AM-12:00PM GAR 2.112
CD
HI
(also listed as ANS 340S, HIS 340S)
AAS 325 • The Chinese In Diaspora
35924 • Spring 2017
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM GAR 0.128
GCIIWr
(also listed as ANS 361, HIS 350L)
AAS 381 • Race And Migration
35895 • Fall 2016
Meets TH 12:30PM-3:30PM GAR 2.124
(also listed as HIS 392)
AAS 312 • Intro To Asian American Hist
35075 • Spring 2016
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM GAR 1.126
CD
(also listed as HIS 317L)
AAS 325 • Taiwan: Colniz/Migratn/Ident
35110 • Spring 2016
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM JGB 2.202
CDGCWr
(also listed as ANS 340T, HIS 340T)
AAS 325 • Chinese In The United States
34985 • Fall 2015
Meets MWF 11:00AM-12:00PM GAR 0.132
CD
(also listed as ANS 340S, HIS 340S)
AAS 325 • The Chinese In Diaspora
35290 • Spring 2015
Meets TTH 12:30PM-2:00PM GAR 1.134
CDGCWr
(also listed as ANS 361, HIS 350L)
AAS 381 • Race And Migration
35330 • Spring 2015
Meets M 12:00PM-3:00PM GAR 2.124
(also listed as HIS 392)
AAS 325 • Taiwan: Colniz/Migratn/Ident
36515 • Spring 2014
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM GAR 2.128
CDGCWr
(also listed as ANS 340T, HIS 340T)
AAS 325 • Chinese In The United States
36350 • Fall 2013
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM GAR 1.126
CD
(also listed as HIS 340S)
AAS 325 • The Chinese In Diaspora
36060 • Fall 2012
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM GAR 2.112
Wr
(also listed as HIS 350L)
AAS 312 • Intro To Asian American Hist
35840 • Spring 2012
Meets TTH 12:30PM-2:00PM PAR 201
CD
HI
(also listed as HIS 317L)
AAS 325 • Taiwan: Colniz/Migratn/Ident
35870 • Fall 2011
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM JES A303A
GCWr
(also listed as ANS 361, HIS 364G)
AAS 325 • Chinese In The United States
36170 • Spring 2011
Meets TTH 12:30PM-2:00PM GAR 1.126
CD
(also listed as HIS 340S)
AAS 325 • Taiwan: Coloniz/Migratn/Ident
35720 • Spring 2010
Meets TTH 12:30PM-2:00PM GAR 1.126
(also listed as ANS 361, HIS 364G)
AAS 325 • Chinese In Diaspora-W
36020 • Fall 2009
Meets M 3:00PM-6:00PM GAR 0.132
C2
(also listed as ANS 361, HIS 350L)
AAS 325 • Chinese In The United States
35240 • Spring 2009
Meets MWF 11:00AM-12:00PM GAR 1.126
HI
AAS 325 • Chinese In Diaspora-W
36210 • Fall 2008
Meets T 3:00PM-6:00PM BUR 228
C2
(also listed as ANS 361)
AAS 325 • Taiwan: Colniz/Migratn/Ident-W
36040 • Spring 2008
Meets MWF 11:00AM-12:00PM GAR 1.126
C2
(also listed as ANS 361)
AAS 301 • Intro To Asian Amer Studies
36690 • Fall 2007
Meets MWF 10:00AM-11:00AM ESB 133
(also listed as AMS 315, HIS 306N)
AAS 325 • Chinese In The United States
35485 • Spring 2007
Meets MWF 10:00AM-11:00AM BUR 216
HI
Publications
Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home: Transnationalism and Migration Between the United States and South China, 1882-1943. Stanford University Press, 2000. Association for Asian American Studies History Book Award, 2002.
Co-edited with Sucheng Chan. Chinese Americans and the Politics of Race and Culture. Temple University Press, 2008.
Editor. Chinese American Transnational Politics by Him Mark Lai. University of Illinois Press, 2010. Honorable Mention, 2012 Association for Asian American Studies History Book Award.
The Good Immigrants: How the Yellow Peril Became a Model Minority. Princeton University Press, 2015.
2016 Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize
2015 Theodore J. Saloutos Book Award
2014-2015 Asian Pacific American Librarians Association Adult Non-Fiction Honor Book 2015 Chinese American Librarians Association Award for non-fiction
2016 Hamilton Book Award finalist
2017 Association for Asian American Studies History Book Award
Asian American History: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, December 2016.
With Ellen D. Wu, "Smoke and Mirrors: Conditional Inclusion, Model Minorities, and the Pre 1965 Dismantling of Asian Exclusion,” Forum on the State and Future of the Immigration and Ethnic History Field, Commemorative Issue: Perspectives on the State and Future of the Immigration and Ethnic History Field, Journal of American Ethnic History 34: 4 (Summer 2015), 43-65.
“Refgees as Resources in Aid Refugee Chinese Intellectuals, Inc. (ARCI) Programs to Support Nationalist Taiwan, 1952-1956,” for “Global Displacements and Emplacement: The Forced Exile and Resettlement Experiences of Ethnic Chinese Refugees,” a special issue of the Journal of Chinese Overseas (2014) 10:2.
“Chinese and American Collaborations through Educational Exchange during the Era of Exclusion, 1872-1955,” Pacific Historical Review, co-editor of special issue titled “Conversations on Transpacific History,” 83:2 (May 2014): 314-332.
“The Disappearance of America’s Cold War Chinese Refugees.” Journal of American Ethnic History, 31:4 (Summer, 2012): 12-33.
Texas-based Asian American Community Resources
Center for Asian American Studies
Past director 2006-2014
http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/aas/
https://www.facebook.com/UTCAAS
Asian Family Support Services of Austin
Board director 2015-2017
http://www.saheli-austin.org/d6/
https://www.facebook.com/AFSSAustin?fref=ts
Asian American Resource Center
https://www.facebook.com/aarcatx?fref=ts
Network of Asian American Organizations
https://www.facebook.com/groups/NAAOTEXAS/
Austin History Center
http://library.austintexas.gov/ahc
https://www.facebook.com/AustinHistoryCenter
Lucky Chaos Theater Projects
https://www.facebook.com/LuckyChaosTheater?fref=ts
Asian Austin
Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation
http://www.vietnameseamerican.org/
https://www.facebook.com/VietnameseAmerican?fref=ts
Asian-Pacific American Heritage Association
https://www.facebook.com/APAHAHouston?fref=ts
Texas Asia Society
Online interviews and talks
U.S. Immigration, 1920s to the 1960s, OAH 2019 RoundtableU.S. Immigration Policy since 1965
Chinese Immigration, Public Affairs Forum, First Unitarian Universalist Church
First UU Church of Austin - PAF1314 - U.T. Professor Madeline Hsu
First UU Church of Austin Public Affairs Forum 1314 - 04/07/13 - Madeline Hsu, PhD -"The Origins of Exclusionary Immigration Policy"
How Chinese Immigrants Became Model Minorities: Intellectuals, Refugees, and Immigration Selection, 1908-1962
Madeline Hsu, Monday, November 4, 2013
Associate professor of history; director, Center for Asian American Studies, University of Texas, Austin; editor, Chinese American Transnational Politics (2010) and author, forthcoming Strategic Migrations: Immigration Selection and How the Yellow Peril Became a Model Minority, 1872-1966; "How Chinese Immigrants Became Model Minorities: Intellectuals, Refugees, and Immigration Selection, 1908-1962"
Across the Divide: A Roundtable Discussion on Contemporary Chinese Art
Across the Divide: A Round Table Discussion on Contemporary Chinese Art
In conjunction with the exhibition 'Across the Divide', the Visual Arts Center presents a round table discussion to explore the common thread among the Across the Divide artists as well as the history and direction of contemporary Chinese art today. Discussants for the round table conversation include Amy Lewis Hofland, Director of The Crow Collection, Dallas; Beili Liu, Faculty Host of the Across the Divide exhibition and Associate Professor in Studio Art at The University of Texas at Austin; Dr. Yun–Chiahn C. Sena, Assistant Professor of Chinese Art. UT Austin; Dr. Madeline Hsu, Director of the Center for Asian American Studies and Associate Professor of History, UT Austin, and others. The discussion will be moderated by Dr. Yun-Chiahn C. Sena.
Dr. Yun-Chiahn C. Sena specializes in Chinese art and culture with a focus on the antiquarian movement and literati art and aestheticism after the tenth century. After receiving her Ph.D. in 2007 from the University of Chicago, she joined the faculty of Art and Art History at The University of Texas at Austin. Her dissertation, Pursuing Antiquity: Chinese Antiquarianism from the Tenth to the Thirteen Century, examines the Chinese antiquarian movement with a new methodological approach, which integrates data from art and literary works, archeological findings, and historical documents. Her recent study on Kao gu tu and Bo gu tu, the two most important illustrated antiquarian writings produced before the introduction of modern archeology to China, appeared in Wu Hung, ed. Reinventing the Past: Archaism and Antiquarianism in Chinese Art and Visual Culture in 2008.
Chinese Immigration, Public Affairs Forum, First Unitarian Universalist Church
Peopled United 2015-10-23
This episode of KOOP Radio's People United features historian Madeline Y. Hsu on her book The Good Immigrants: How the Yellow Peril Became the Model Minority, an examination of the relationship between changes in US policies and perceptions of Chinese immigrants. She spoke at the Asian American Resource Center in Austin, Texas, on September 12, 2015.
They Might be Giants: China and the U.S.
BackStory (Virginia Foundation for the Humanities), interviewed by Brian Balogh
Americans have traded with China since the earliest days of the Republic. During the colonial era and for early Americans, China was a source of luxury goods like tea, porcelain, and silk. For some of their descendants, it was the destination for an illicit and lucrative trade in opium. Later, Chinese immigrants helped to build the American West. But the relationship between the two countries has often been fraught, with each side fearing that the other is seeking the upper hand. In this episode, Brian, Ed and Peter explore the long and often turbulent history between the two countries, now the top economies in the world. How does our past history with China color our present relationship?
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