Francis L K Hsu

Biographic Data

ID	89659
NAME	Francis L K Hsu
GIVEN NAMES	Francis L K
FAMILY NAME	Hsu
SIGNATURE	HSU F L K
AFFILIATIONS	Northwestern University
VERIFIED	No
TOTAL WORKS	108
TOTAL CITATIONS	411
AUTHOR COUNT	106
EDITOR COUNT	2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR	1940
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR	2017
H-INDEX	9

Kinship and Culture
Francis L K HsuBOOKKinship and Culture2017
The Illusory Pursuit of the Self: "A Review of "Culture and Self: Asian and Western Perspectives
Gananath Obeyesekere, Anthony J Marsella et al.ARTICLEPhilosophy East and West1990
The Japanese through American Eyes
Francis L K Hsu, Sheila K JohnsonARTICLEAnthropological Quarterly1990
Culture and Self: Asian and Western Perspectives
Leonard J Pinto, Anthony J Marsella et al.ARTICLEReview of Religious Research1987Cited by: 1
Exorcising the Trouble Makers: Magic, Science, and Culture
D Glazier, Stephen D Glazier et al.ARTICLEReview of Religious Research1986
Culture and self: Asian and Western perspectives
Anthony J Marsella, Francis L K HsuBOOKCulture and self1985Cited by: 133
Chinese Ethnicity and the Overseas Chinese
Hendrick Serrie, Francis L K HsuARTICLEJournal of Comparative Family…1985
This article is an introduction to the entire issue. The seven papers which follow are brought together within the categories of psychocultural orientation, kin-oriented social organization, segmentary sociopolitical organization host culture environment, and foreign born generation. The social organization of overseas Chinese communities must be adaptive to the cultural environment of their host nations. Yet the resulting minority institutions h…
Exorcising the Trouble Makers: Magic, Science, and Culture
Margaret M Poloma, Francis L K HsuARTICLESociological Analysis1984
Journal Article Exorcising the Trouble Makers: Magic, Science, and Culture, by Francis L. K. Hsu. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1983, xiii + 164 pp. $27.95 Get access Margaret M. Poloma Margaret M. Poloma The University of Akron Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 45, Issue 4, Winter 1984, Page 402, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711310 Published: 01 December 1984
Fei Xiaotong and Sociology in Revolutionary China. R. David Arkush
Open AccessFrancis L K HsuARTICLEAmerican Ethnologist1983
Conceptions of Kinship . Bernard Farber.
Open AccessFrancis L K HsuARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1982
Americans and Chinese: Passages to Differences
Francis L K Hsu, Henry Steele Commager et al.BOOKAmericans and Chinese1981
Revision of the 1953 ed., published under title: Americans and Chinese: two ways of life. The 1970 title: Americans and Chinese: purpose and fulfillment in great civilizations
Malinowskiana: A Reply to Dr. E. R. Leach
Open AccessFrancis L K Hsu, Francis HsuARTICLERAIN1980
Ethnology: Studies in Chinese Society . Arthur P. Wolf
Open AccessFrancis L K HsuARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1980
Ethnology: Chinese Family Law and Social Change in Historical and Comparative Perspective . David C. Buxbaum
Open AccessFrancis L K HsuARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1980
Moving a Mountain. Cultural Change in China
Charles P Cell, Godwin C Chu et al.ARTICLEPacific Affairs1980Cited by: 8
Papers originally presented at a conference entitled, "Communication and cultural change in China," held in Jan. 1978 at the East-West Center, Honolulu. \n \nFor more about the East-West Center, see http://www.eastwestcenter.org
Margaret Mead and Psychological Anthropology
Open AccessFrancis L K HsuARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1980Cited by: 3References: 9
Linguistics: Radical Change Through Communication in Mao's China . Godwin C. Chu
Open AccessFrancis L K HsuARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1979
The Cultural Problem of the Cultural Anthropologist
Open AccessFrancis L K HsuARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1979Cited by: 22References: 16
An intensive analysis of Malinowski's diary reveals an ethnocentrism hitherto unnoticed in our discipline. Ethnocentrism is common to all societies and cultures, but what anthropologists have so far failed to understand is the very basic distinction between positive ethnocentrism and neutral ethnocentrism. Malinowski, being rooted in white European society and culture where positive enthocentrism prevails, suffered from some peculiar defects in p…
Third World Anthropologists and the Reappraisal of Anthropological Paradigms
Open AccessFrancis L K Hsu, Robert B TextorARTICLEAnthropology News1978Cited by: 2References: 3
President Hsu Welcomes Participants
Open AccessFrancis L K HsuARTICLEAnthropology News1978
The Myth of Chinese Expansionism
Francis L K HsuARTICLEJournal of Asian and African…1978
China and the West: Myths and Realities in History
Francis L K Hsu, Hyobom B PakARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1977
Childhood in China. William Kessen
Francis L K HsuARTICLEAmerican Journal of Sociology1977Cited by: 1
General and Theoretical: Interethnic Relations: An Essay in Sociological Theory. E. K. Francis
Open AccessFrancis L K HsuARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1977
Intercultural Understanding: Genuine and Spurious
Open AccessFrancis L K HsuARTICLEAnthropology & Education Quarterly1977

Culture and self: Asian and Western perspectives
Anthony J Marsella, Francis L K HsuBOOKCulture and self1985Cited by: 133
Psychosocial Homeostasis and Jen: Conceptual Tools for Advancing Psychological Anthropology
Open AccessFrancis L K HsuARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1971Cited by: 70References: 12
Personality is a Western concept rooted in individualism. The basic importance accorded it in psychological anthropology has obscured our understanding of how Western man lives in Western society and culture, or how any man lives in any society and culture. What is missing is the central ingredient in the human mode of existence: man's relationship with his fellow men. The concepts of psychosocial homeostasis and jen are designed to extricate our…
Prejudice and Its Intellectual Effect in American Anthropology: An Ethnographic Report1
Open AccessFrancis L K HsuARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1973Cited by: 30References: 33
This article deals with some deep forms of prejudice in American anthropology in terms of its dominant ideas and its products. The foundation of this prejudice seems to be Western individualism. It expresses itself by excluding contrary ideas from its public forums (publications, symposia, and so forth) and by elaborating and escalating ideas in conformity with it. In spite of its cross-cultural protestations, American anthropology will become Wh…
Americans and Chinese: Two ways of life.
Francis L K HsuBOOKAmericans and Chinese: two ways…1953Cited by: 26
The Cultural Problem of the Cultural Anthropologist
Open AccessFrancis L K HsuARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1979Cited by: 22References: 16
An intensive analysis of Malinowski's diary reveals an ethnocentrism hitherto unnoticed in our discipline. Ethnocentrism is common to all societies and cultures, but what anthropologists have so far failed to understand is the very basic distinction between positive ethnocentrism and neutral ethnocentrism. Malinowski, being rooted in white European society and culture where positive enthocentrism prevails, suffered from some peculiar defects in p…
The Myth of Chinese Family Size
Francis L K Hsu, Francis Lang-Kwang HsuARTICLEAmerican Journal of Sociology1943Cited by: 16
The belief that the Chinese family tends to be a large one, with several generation living under the same roof, has recently been challenged by field studies which show the average size of the Chinese family to be about five. The social emphasis on the father-son relation makes for a potentially larger family, but there is also always a potential cleavage centering around the husband-wife relation in the larger family. The poverty of the vast maj…
Fabric of Chinese Society: A Study of the Social Life of a Chinese County Seat
Francis L K Hsu, Mortin H FriedARTICLEAmerican Sociological Review1954Cited by: 14
"Rethinking the Concept "Primitive
Francis L K HsuARTICLECurrent Anthropology1964Cited by: 12References: 10
This article shows the empirical, theoretical, and practical, and practical obsolescence of the concept "primitive" except in some most restricted sense, such as application to peoples and cultures in prehistorical times. A survey of 30 basic books in anthropology written during the last 10 years reveals that the concept still enjoys a high degree of currency in an ambiguous, inconsistent, or scientifically meaningless way. The reasons for this i…
Observations on Cross-cousin Marriage in China
Open AccessFrancis L K HsuARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1945Cited by: 9
Moving a Mountain. Cultural Change in China
Charles P Cell, Godwin C Chu et al.ARTICLEPacific Affairs1980Cited by: 8
Papers originally presented at a conference entitled, "Communication and cultural change in China," held in Jan. 1978 at the East-West Center, Honolulu. \n \nFor more about the East-West Center, see http://www.eastwestcenter.org
Filial Piety in Japan and China: Borrowing, Variation and Significance
Francis L K HsuARTICLEJournal of Comparative Family…1971Cited by: 8
Filial piety has been central to Chinese social fabric since ancient times and thoroughly adopted and propagated by the Japanese since the sixth century A.D. However, it was an impediment to the industrial, military and political development of China but not to that of Japan. Our hypothesis is that dissimilarities in kinship structure, and hence in secondary groupings, between the two societies led the content of filial piety to build human relat…
Under the Ancestor's Shadow: Chinese Culture and Personality
J Stewart Burge, J Stewart Burgess et al.ARTICLEAmerican Sociological Review1949Cited by: 8
Christianity and the Anthropologist
Francis L K HsuARTICLEInternational Journal of…1967Cited by: 7References: 6
Structure, Function, Content, and Process
Open AccessFrancis L K HsuARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1959Cited by: 7References: 21
Religion, Science and Human Crises
K G Collier, Francis L K HsuARTICLEBritish Journal of Sociology1953Cited by: 7
The Chinese Labor Movement
Lawrence K Rosinger, Nym Wales et al.ARTICLEThe Far Eastern Quarterly1945Cited by: 6
Margaret Mead and Psychological Anthropology
Open AccessFrancis L K HsuARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1980Cited by: 3References: 9
Role, Affect, and Anthropology
Open AccessFrancis L K HsuARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1977Cited by: 3References: 1
Social Mobility in China
Francis L K HsuARTICLEAmerican Sociological Review1949Cited by: 3
Third World Anthropologists and the Reappraisal of Anthropological Paradigms
Open AccessFrancis L K Hsu, Robert B TextorARTICLEAnthropology News1978Cited by: 2References: 3
The anthropology of American life is in need of the cross-cultural perspective
Eileen Hsu‐balzer, Francis L K HsuBOOKReviews in Anthropology1975Cited by: 2References: 1
This article argues for the integration of a cross-cultural perspective into the study of American life. The authors contend that American anthropology, often focused on specific cultural groups within the United States, lacks a comparative framework that would illuminate the unique aspects of American culture. By comparing American cultural patterns with those of other societies, researchers can gain a deeper understanding of the underlying assu…
A Neglected Aspect of Witchcraft Studies
Francis L K HsuARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1960Cited by: 2
W IT CHCRAFT and witch hunting have been the subject of many papers, monographs and books. To date there are at least three intensive anthropological inquiries1 and a number of shorter works.2 The usual conclusions on witchcraft and witch hunting are that they are related to law and order, that witchcraft can have serious effect among people who believe in it, and that witch hunting is an outlet for psychological tensions. But such works remain p…
Under the Ancestors' Shadow: Chinese Culture and Personality
Paul Frederick Cressey, Francis L K Hsu et al.ARTICLEThe Far Eastern Quarterly1949Cited by: 2
Influence of South-Seas Emigration on Certain Chinese Provinces
Francis L K HsuARTICLEThe Far Eastern Quarterly1945Cited by: 2
The Chinese are changing,” we heard this said many times even before the last war. Numerous books, mainly popular in nature, have been written on this very theme. Most of us often fail to realize that it is largely an assumption. Unlike other assumptions about the Chinese it has, however, rarely been seriously questioned. To what extent have the Chinese changed? What are the most important factors responsible for their change? What are some of th…
Culture and Self: Asian and Western Perspectives
Leonard J Pinto, Anthony J Marsella et al.ARTICLEReview of Religious Research1987Cited by: 1

The Problem of Incest Tabu in a North China Village1,2
Open AccessFrancis L K HsuARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1940
The Differential Functions of Relationship Terms1
Open AccessFrancis L K HsuARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1942Cited by: 1
Incentives to work in Primitive Communities
Francis L K HsuARTICLEAmerican Sociological Review1943
in the broadest sense, including the interests of one's family, friends or other group, is the motivation of labor in all societies. In EuroAmerican urban societies this self-interest operates largely through money acquisition and exchange. In pre-literate societies and also in rural, non-industrialized communities on all cultural levels, self-interest operates largely through conforming to community values, following prescribed rituals or magica…
The Myth of Chinese Family Size
Francis L K Hsu, Francis Lang-Kwang HsuARTICLEAmerican Journal of Sociology1943Cited by: 16
The belief that the Chinese family tends to be a large one, with several generation living under the same roof, has recently been challenged by field studies which show the average size of the Chinese family to be about five. The social emphasis on the father-son relation makes for a potentially larger family, but there is also always a potential cleavage centering around the husband-wife relation in the larger family. The poverty of the vast maj…
China Enters the Machine Age: A Study of Labor in Chinese War Industry
Kuo-Heng Shih, Kuo-hengHG Shih et al.BOOKChina Enters the Machine Age1944
This study ... by the Yenching-Yunnan Station for Sociological Research, National Yunnan University
Magic and Science in Western Yunnan. Social Change in Southwest China--Case Study 3
J S Slotkin, Francis L K HsuARTICLEAmerican Sociological Review1944
Some Problems of Chinese Law in Operation Today
Francis L K HsuARTICLEThe Far Eastern Quarterly1944Cited by: 1
Guild and Kinship Among the Butchers in West Town
Francis L K Hsu, J H Hu et al.ARTICLEAmerican Sociological Review1945
This paper is an off-shoot of a wider investigation, the results of which will appear in a volume entitled, Family, Clan and Ancestor Worship in West Yunnan (provisional title). West Town is in Tali District and is one of the many comparatively larger interior Chinese towns. However, West Town has a number of distinguished features. For a preliminary idea of the town the reader is referred to F. L. K. Hsu: Magic and Science in Western Yunnan (IPR…
The Chinese Labor Movement
Lawrence K Rosinger, Nym Wales et al.ARTICLEThe Far Eastern Quarterly1945Cited by: 6
Influence of South-Seas Emigration on Certain Chinese Provinces
Francis L K HsuARTICLEThe Far Eastern Quarterly1945Cited by: 2
The Chinese are changing,” we heard this said many times even before the last war. Numerous books, mainly popular in nature, have been written on this very theme. Most of us often fail to realize that it is largely an assumption. Unlike other assumptions about the Chinese it has, however, rarely been seriously questioned. To what extent have the Chinese changed? What are the most important factors responsible for their change? What are some of th…
China Enters the Machine Age
Lewis S C Smythe, Kuo-Heng Shih et al.ARTICLEPacific Affairs1945
Observations on Cross-cousin Marriage in China
Open AccessFrancis L K HsuARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1945Cited by: 9
A Closer View of China's Problems
Francis L K HsuARTICLEThe Far Eastern Quarterly1946References: 1
Now, wherever the Reds went there is no doubt they radically changed the situation for the tenant farmer, the poor farmer, the middle fanner, and all the havenot elements. All forms of taxation were abolished in the new districts for the first year.... Secondly, they gave land to the land-hungry peasants.... Thirdly, they took land and livestock from the wealthy classes and redistributed among the poor. Redistribution of land was a fundamental of…
A Chinese Village
Francis L K Hsu, Martin C Yang et al.ARTICLEAmerican Sociological Review1946
A Daughter of Han; The Autobiography of a Chinese Working Woman. Ida Pruitt
Open AccessFrancis L K HsuARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1946
On a Technique for Studying Relationship Terms1
Open AccessFrancis L K HsuARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1947Cited by: 1References: 4
Under the ancestors' shadow: Chinese culture and personality
Francis L K HsuBOOKUnder the ancestors' shadow1948
Under the Ancestors’ Shadow: Chinese Culture and Personality
Francis L K HsuBOOKUnder the Ancestors’ Shadow1948
Presents a description of a small semi-rural community in southwest China, and explores the role played by this culture with reference to its family and religious life. Also explores the role played by this culture in the personality configurations of the individuals in the community
The Cowrie Shell Miao of Kweichow
Francis L K Hsu, Margaret Portia MickeyARTICLEPacific Affairs1948
Chinese Ghost and Love Stories
Francis L K Hsu, P''U Sungling et al.ARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1948
Under the Ancestors' Shadow; Chinese Culture and Personality
Francis L K HsuREVIEWThe American Journal of Psychology1949
Other: Family and Civilization . C arle C. Z immerman
Open AccessFrancis L K HsuARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1949
Under the Ancestor's Shadow: Chinese Culture and Personality
J Stewart Burge, J Stewart Burgess et al.ARTICLEAmerican Sociological Review1949Cited by: 8
Social Mobility in China
Francis L K HsuARTICLEAmerican Sociological Review1949Cited by: 3
Under the Ancestors' Shadow: Chinese Culture and Personality
Paul Frederick Cressey, Francis L K Hsu et al.ARTICLEThe Far Eastern Quarterly1949Cited by: 2