{"id":2299,"date":"2021-03-24T11:47:30","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T16:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/?post_type=speaker&#038;p=2299"},"modified":"2021-03-24T11:47:31","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T16:47:31","slug":"madeline-hsu","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/speaker\/madeline-hsu\/","title":{"rendered":"Madeline Hsu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Madeline Y. Hsu is Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin and served as Director of the Center for Asian American Studies eight years (2006-2014).\u00a0 She is president of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society and vice-president of the International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 She received her undergraduate degrees in History from Pomona College and PhD from Yale University.\u00a0 Her first book was\u00a0<em>Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home: Transnationalism and Migration between the United States and South China, 1882-1943<\/em>\u00a0(Stanford University Press, 2000).\u00a0 Her most recent monograph,\u00a0<em>The Good Immigrants: How the Yellow Peril Became the Model Minority\u00a0<\/em>(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.\u00a0 Her third book,\u00a0<em>Asian American History: A Very Short Introduction<\/em>\u00a0was published by Oxford University Press in 2016 and the co-edited anthology,<em>\u00a0A Nation of Immigrants Reconsidered: U.S. Society in an Age of Restriction, 1924-1965<\/em>\u00a0was published in 2019 by the University of Illinois Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2300,"template":"","class_list":{"0":"post-2299","1":"speaker","2":"type-speaker","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"entry"},"acf":{"speaker_title":"Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin","speaker_last_name":"Hsu","speaker_classification":["Current Staff"]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/2299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/speaker"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/2299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2302,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/2299\/revisions\/2302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}