Weekend Long Read: The Chinese Historian Looking to Balance Individualism and Collectivism

While visiting professor Cho-yun Hsu at his home in the U.S. city of Pittsburgh, I sat chatting with his son and grandson in the kitchen while the famed 93-year-old Chinese historian received an acupuncture treatment from his daughter-in-law in the bedroom.

Hsu’s only son, who goes by Leo Hsu, shares his father’s passion for photography. One of the younger Hsu’s photos, taken of the historian when he was 80, became widely recognized as the cover of the Taiwanese edition of Hsu’s biography “Household Affairs, National Affairs, and World Affairs: A Life Review of Academician Cho-yun Hsu.”