Arthur Hu

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Introduction

This is the home web page of Arthur Hu which has been around in some form since 1995, so this is one of the older websites around.

I'm an American-Born Chinese (ABC some call that) with a west-coast Washington accent. The Chinese called that first generation, but the Japanese would call Nisei or second generation.

My father John Chih-An Hu was from Hupei province, born in July 1922. Here is part of his biography, his 2001 obituary is here

The famous Chinese Poet, Tu-Fu of Tang Dynasty also dwelled in this area. Nanchang is in an area where ancient Chinese intellectuals such as Kung-Ming dwelled. In a village only a short distance away from Nanchang, Kung-Ming was visited three times by the emperor of the Han Dynasty before he accepted an appointment as the commander in chief of that dynasty. The famous Chinese poet Tu-Fu of Tang Dynasty also dwelled in this area. Nanchang neigbors Hsiangfan which is a vital geographical point of military and politcal importance in China. John is the eldest son of Chi-Ching and Chao-Hsian (Tsen) Hu. He has a younger sister and five brothers. During his entire childhood, China was dominated by civil wars and World War II. As a result, few people had the opportunity of education. Due to his unusual diligence and academic talent, he was able to attend the best schools of his choice. At the end of the second World War, he graduated from the Chemistry Department of National Central University in 1946, then taught in Hsu-Chou High School for a year.

He was one of the first Chinese to go China's western-style college to study chemistry. His "back in my day story I had to walk in the snow uphill both ways" was having to walk halfway across china before they had trains or airliners. He got there just in time for finals, but he says he got the top score anyways. He helped to move the campus to stay out of the way of invading Japanese troops in the Sino-Japanese / WWII. He got to watch the bombers fly over and bomb nearby Chunking. After the war, he was assigned to help run the fertilizer factory that the Japanese were kind enough to leave behind on Taiwan. He got a scholarship to a university in Cincinati, but he eventually made his way to USC in Los Angeles where he nearly completed his PhD. My mother Betty came from a well to do family with a large house with a big courtyard, now an apartment block in Schezuan province. Her father was a Nationalist government official who contemplated staying behind to fight the communists in a guerilla action, but thought better of it and took about the last plane out of Shanghai. She got a scholarship to Immaculate Heart College in Los Angeles before they got so progressive they broke off from the mother Catholic church and eventually closed down. I saw her report card which said she actually took a college level course in homemaking. At that time there were only a handful of students from China in the US who had actually stepped off a boat which had staterooms for travelers on cargo vessels, if I recall they actually came ashore in Vancouver BC, arriving in the late 1950s. They had me towards the end of the 1950s, but my mother contined her studies as a mother, and had another by the time she graduated. Eventually we had 6 brothers and 1 sister named from A to G.

Dad eventually did research that established that Seattle was the place to be to get away from smog and earthquakes, and we settled in a suburb of Seattle during the Boeing boom days of the 1960s and the bust days of the 1970s. Airplanes were lined up wingtip to wingtip all the way down Renton field and we could hear the roar of money when they delivered planes. We grew up with Hot wheels cars, and Dad was the original fan of Volkswagens with a 1961 bug and a different bus every 2 or 3 years as we wore them out on various camping trips all over the western US

My parent's idea of the American Dream was sending all 7 kids (who all played violin) as the original tiger parents to MIT and Stanford. That's a feat which the next generation isn't going to repeat, but in our day then we didn't have the internet or mobile phones or openGL.

My day job is usually software engineer or software engineer in test in some Microsoft (TM) technology such as Windows / .NET / Windows mobile. I started in high school with a desktop HP9830 BASIC computer with a plotter. I figured out 3D perspective from scratch in high school before colleges even offered course in graphics. I was turned down by Harvard, wait listed to Caltech, accepted to Stanford but college at MIT.

I've worked for a number of computer and software companies including Hewlett Packard, Digital Equipment, Autodesk, Microsoft, and Intel over the years in Boston, Silicon Valley, Boise, Portland and my home town of Seattle, and lately weathered the winters of Rochester Minnesota.

My parents loved music and played lots of Broadway musicals which I became familiar with. I was the one that was concertmaster of the Thalia youth symphony and in Vilem Sokol's Seattle Youth Symphony "1812" film, and concertmaster at MIT (well my other brother was concertmaster at Stanford..) My dad gave me a really nice violin he picked up at a pawn shop for $50, and the world's worst guitar for the PBS Frederick Noad classical guitar and the parks program folk guitar, which I've carried to Catholic and now Contemporay Christian music, and around Rochester I've joined the bunch of people who hang around the medical clinic piano either singing or playing streetcorner style songs.

It's mostly the other stuff I get into that's on my web pages.

I've got a pretty good web presence on my various sites for a user who isn't viral yet:

arthurhu.com website 2-4,000 page hits / day
flickr photos
youtube channel 1,200-1,600 views / day
facebook (but don't friend me unless I already know you)
total 3-4000 hits per day / 2 million hits per year
Eric/Dad's JFK PT 109 project

Tech, Diversity, Stuff | Offbeat Seattle Tour | Webmaster: arthurhu (a) hufamily.com
Featuring: Anything Index of Diversity Statistics by every race and many other groups:|

Web address here is http://www.arthurhu.com

Asian Week Columns

Features

[Historical 1000-4000 hits per day on this website]
YouTube videos channel
Flickr photo channel
Arthur Fiddler Blog
Hu's on First Blog(old)
Hu's on First Asian Week columns
- Olympics and Diversity
- Sichuan Earthquake
My name on National Review's September 15 1997 Cover and classic piece on minority achievment in education "As many analysts are declaring the integration experiment a failure, Harvard's desegregation guru, Gary Orfield, keeps telling us that minority education could be fixed if only we desegregated more"
Offbeat Seattle Tour / Screen Savers: Fremont Troll, Toe Truck and More!
Hu's on First Political ColumnsI'm an Asian / Chinese American, What The Heck Are You?
Family Album / Announcements

This is Arthur Hu's home page. I've specialized in Asian Americans and Affirmative Action, and Education (Deform) Reform so you can check out my Hu's on First Political Columns or Index of DiversityIndex of Diversity

On the lighter side, I've posted my family album for family announcements to supplement family email communications with pictures, and test out the waters for new uses of the web. My most popular attraction seems to be my collecting site, which has been named one of the best Matchbox car sites.

Offbeat Seattle Tour / Screen Savers

The Index of Diversity

Every statistic ever gathered on Asian Americans and every other kind of diversity in one place. Not all of the data is on line yet, but you can email arthurhu@halcyon.com if what you're looking for isn't in the index. Not neccesarily politically correct, but that's the facts.

Here are the most popular pages May 2008, it's still mostly in the same order:

1 default.asp 550 3.68% You are here.
2 fastfood.htm 479 3.20% MdDonald's Toys (yeah used to collect those)
3 washtest.htm 202 1.35%
4 ahealth.htm 197 1.32%
5 awelfare.htm 191 1.28% Welfare
6 literacy.htm 190 1.27% Literacy - nearly eradicated by old standards, re-invented by standards based education
8 militry.htm 161 1.08% Military
9 health.htm 157 1.05% Health
10 aintell.htm 150 1.00% Asians and intelligence. But if Asians are so smart, why are they still a minority?
11 aeduc.htm 139 0.93% Education main
12 jewish.htm 138 0.92% Jewish statistics. Funny, you don't look jewish.
13 death.htm 134 0.90% Death rates.
14 salelist.htm 130 0.87% Stuff I used to have for sale, but you can still look
15 index.htm 121 0.81%
16 genocide.htm 120 0.80%
17 asianam.htm 102 0.68% Asian Americans
18 test.htm 99 0.66% Testing
19 STARDUST.AVI 96 0.64% Old Vegas hotel
20 evol.htm 95 0.64% Evolution. What's the evidence vs various flavors of creationism?
21 aintell.htm 92 0.62% Intelligence
22 hotwheel.htm 90 0.60% Hot wheels
23 washtest.htm 85 0.57% WASL and standards-based testing. I'm against it, find out why
24 bio.htm 84 0.56%
25 sst.htm 81 0.54% Boeing SST
26 index.htm 70 0.47% Main index
27 agay.htm 70 0.47% Gay / LGBT
28 collect.htm 69 0.46% Collectibles
29 black.htm 65 0.43% African American Data
30 edindex2.htm 65 0.43% Education Index 2
31 lifeexpe.htm 64 0.43% Life Expectancy - Asians and Mormons do well
32 internet.htm 62 0.41%
33 math.htm 61 0.41% Math - What have they done to math education? Yeesh.
34 genocide.htm 60 0.40% When lots of people get hurt, big time
35 bookmark.htm 59 0.39%
36 afact.htm 57 0.38% Affirmative Action
37 aids.htm 55 0.37% AIDS
38 edindex.htm 55 0.37%
39 aaids.htm 53 0.35% Asians and AIDS
40 asports.htm 47 0.31% Sports. Asian men can't run, etc.
42 hu1st.htm 44 0.29% Columns by me
43 ahealth.htm 44 0.29%
44 matloff.htm 43 0.29%
46 johnligh.htm 42 0.28%
47 acollege.htm 41 0.27% College
48 reading.htm 41 0.27%
49 jobs.htm 41 0.27% Jobs
50 apoverty.htm 39 0.26% Poverty
51 sat.htm 39 0.26%
52 samptest.htm 37 0.25%
53 illimm.htm 37 0.25% Illegal immigration
54 income.htm 37 0.25%
55 decsav.txt 35 0.23%
57 cartype.htm 35 0.23%
58 post.htm 34 0.23%
59 hufamily.htm 34 0.23%
60 index.htm 33 0.22%
61 edreform.htm 33 0.22% Education reform. What I really hate with a passion.
62 relig.htm 33 0.22%
63 amc.htm 33 0.22% American motors
64 income.htm 32 0.21% Income and economics
65 aarts.htm 32 0.21% The arts
66 stw.htm 32 0.21% School to work
67 acrime.htm 31 0.21% Crime rates
68 aeduc.htm 31 0.21%
69 obe.htm 31 0.21% Outcome based education - where "high standards" really came from
70 bellcalc.txt 30 0.20%
71 avote.htm 30 0.20% Vote
72 immig.htm 29 0.19% Immigration
73 citypop.htm 29 0.19% City population
74 women.htm 29 0.19% Women
75 economy.htm 28 0.19% Economy
76 family.htm 28 0.19% Family issues
79 excel.htm 26 0.17%
80 afact.htm 25 0.17%
81 abirth.htm 25 0.17%
82 apolitic.htm 25 0.17% Politics
83 collafac.htm 24 0.16%
84 dap.txt 23 0.15%
85 post.htm 23 0.15%
86 asex.htm 23 0.15% Sex Sex Sex...
87 intro.htm 23 0.15%
88 marry.htm 23 0.15% Marriage
89 noun.htm 22 0.15%
90 curric.htm 22 0.15%
91 success.htm 21 0.14% Success among all races
92 apopul.htm 21 0.14% Population, mostly US
93 divorce.htm 21 0.14% Divorce
94 gypsy.htm 21 0.14% Everybody hates the Gypsies, but why?
95 kemet.txt 20 0.13%
96 nostw.txt 20 0.13%
97 black.htm 20 0.13%
98 drugs.htm 20 0.13%
99 siku.htm 19 0.13% The other die cast car company

Older Hu's on First Columns

My Political Commentary Resume

Daily Statistics for my shared sites:

flickr          20-300 flarthurhu
google video    250 arthur98021
youtube -      1000 biukucanoe
arthurhu.com   2000
veoh.com        100 biukufilm
total          3500 hits per day

arthurhu.com traffic (yeah, it's a lot), about 15,000 per week
5/2/2008 pageviews 4000 2500 3000 2800 2400
4/27/2008 Sunday 4,217 
4/28/2008 Monday 2,591 
4/29/2008 Tuesday 3,037 
4/30/2008 Wednesday 2,790 
5/1/2008 Thursday 2,317

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