Francis L. K. Hsu
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Francis L. K. Hsu | |
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許烺光 | |
Born | |
Died | 15 December 1999 | (aged 90)
Nationality | Chinese American |
Alma mater | University of Shanghai Fu Jen Catholic University London School of Economics |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Anthropology |
Institutions | Northwestern University Cornell University Columbia University |
Doctoral advisor | Bronisław Malinowski |
Francis L. K. Hsu (Chinese: 許烺光, 28 October 1909 – 15 December 1999) is a famous anthropologist, one of the founders of psychological anthropology, served as president of the American Anthropological Association from 1977 to 1978.
Career
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.[1]
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.[1]
Contributions
He is the founder of psychological anthropology. He has updated and renewed the methodology of cultural and personality research and has taken a big step forward in human knowledge of large-scale civil society research. His theory has a profound influence on the development of Chinese native 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
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 still insists on engaging in lectures and academic work.
He continued to write a thesis in 1986 with myocardial infarction, and then suffered another two strokes and had to stop academic research. In the end, he died in San Francisco on December 15, 1999 at the age of 91.
Recognition
The American Anthropological Association established the Francis L. K. Hsu Book Prize to commemorate his contribution.
- The 62nd (1977-1978) President of the American Anthropological Association
- Honorary Professor of Northwest University
- Academician of the 12th (1978) Academia Sinica.
- Deputy Editor of the Journal of Comparative Family Studies
- Advisor of the International Journal of Social Psychiatry
Selected poblications
- 1943: Magic and Science in Western Yunnan. New York: Institute of Pacific Relations (55 pages).
- 1948: Under the Ancestors' Shadow:Chinese Culture and Personality. New York: Columbia University Press (300 pages).
- 1952: Religion, Science and Human Crises: A study of China in Transition and Its Implication for the west. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. New York: Grove Press (142 pages)
- 1953: Americans and Chinese: Two Ways Of Life. New York: Abelard-Schuman, Inc. (457 pages).
- 1963: Clan, Caste and Club:A Comparative Study of Chinese, Hindu and American Ways of Life. Princeton:Van Nostrand and Co. (335 pages).
- 1967: Under the Ancestors' Shadow, with a new Chapter,「Kinship, Personality and Social Mobility in China.New York: Doubleday Anchor Books (370 pages).
- 1969: The Study of Literate Civilizations. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston (123 pages).
- 1970: Americans and Chinese:Purpose and Fulfillment in Great Civilizations. Updated and enlarged 2nd edition of Americans and Chinese:Two Ways of Life, 1953.New York: Natural History Press (493 pages).
- 1971: Under the Ancestors' Shadow. (Reprint of 1967 version.) Stanford:Stanford University Press (370 pages).
- 1971: The Challenge of the American Dream:The Chinese in the United States. Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing Co. (160 pages).
- 1974: China Day by Day, with Eileen Hsu-Balzer (許儀南)and Richard Balzer. New Haven: Yale University Press (111 pages).
- 1974: Japan: Economic Miracle five sound filmstrips with cassettes. Series No.6907K, Encyclopedia Britannica Educational Corporation, Chicago.
- 1974: Japan: Spirit of Iemoto, five sound filmstrips with cassettes. Series No.6908K, Encyclopedia Britannica Educational Corporation, Chicago.
- 1975: Iemoto: The Heart of Japan. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Schenkman.
- 1981: Americans and Chinese: Passage to Differences. An updated and enlarged third edition. Honolulu: The University Press of Hawaii (534 pages).
- 1983: Rugged Individualism Reconsidered:Essays in Psychological Anthropology. (a collection of some essays from 1948 to 1979) .Knoxville:The University of Tennessee Press (467 pages).
- 1984: Exorcising the Trouble Maker:Magic, Science and Culture. Greatly revised and enlarged new edition of Religion, Science and Human Crises (1952, 1971), incorporating new field data from the New Territories of Hong Kong. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press (164 pages).
See also
References
- ^ a b 许烺光 - 北京大学社会学系
External links
- Members of Academia Sinica
- American anthropologists
- Chinese anthropologists
- University of Shanghai alumni
- Fu Jen Catholic University alumni
- Alumni of the London School of Economics
- Northwestern University faculty
- Cornell University faculty
- Columbia University faculty
- 1909 births
- 1999 deaths
- People from Zhuanghe
- 20th-century anthropologists