jane hu
hujane.bsky.social
jane hu
@hujane.bsky.social
i reviewed the new katie kitamura for @bookforum.bsky.social (it broke my brain): www.bookforum.com/print/3104/b...
Between the Acts
Katie Kitamura closes her trilogy with a novel about theater – Jane Hu
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April 23, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Fae Myenne Ng's father “would often describe exclusion as a brilliant piece of legislation, because it was ‘bloodless.’ ‘America didn’t have to kill any Chinese; her law assured none would be born.’ ”

@hujane.bsky.social on how immigration law kept Chinese-American families from coming into being:
The Long Shadow of the Chinese Exclusion Act
The true cost of the immigration policy can be measured in the generations of Chinese Americans who were never born.
www.newyorker.com
January 24, 2025 at 1:57 PM
i wrote about fae ng's memoir "orphan bachelors" and the collateral damages of the chinese exclusion act www.newyorker.com/books/under-...
The Long Shadow of the Chinese Exclusion Act
The true cost of the immigration policy can be measured in the generations of Chinese Americans who were never born.
www.newyorker.com
January 23, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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That terrible storm gave us the greatest graphic and unit of measurement: “full-grown corgis.”
January 19, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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January 13, 2024 at 5:30 PM
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In a post linking to her New Yorker review of Susie Boyt's Loved and Missed, Jane Hu calls the book "one of the best new books i’ve read in a long time 💔." @hujane.bsky.social
www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...
A Novel About the Therapeutic Impulse and Its Discontents
“Loved and Missed” is a seductive, clear-eyed account of the delights and dangers of caring for others.
www.newyorker.com
September 27, 2023 at 5:27 PM