Hardy C. Wilcoxon

Biography

Hardy C. Wilcoxon has resided in China and Hong Kong and wrote about Vietnam for VQR following his time there. A graduate of Amherst and Yale University where he received his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in English, he is a former Fulbright lecturer at the Beijing Foreign Studies University.

See Work

ESSAYS / Winter 1995

Vignettes of Vietnam

By Hardy C. Wilcoxon

Smiles and politeness, the mollifying oils of Asia, flow as freely in Vietnam as in China, but beneath the civilities, life in Vietnam seems comparatively violent. Instructions on the door of our fancy Saigon hotel, The Rex, after some...

ESSAYS / Summer 1990

Chinese Students and the Burden of the Past

By Hardy C. Wilcoxon

Just hours before the tanks and armored personnel carriers clattered and blasted their way down Changan Avenue and into Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989, loudspeakers in the square crackled into life, and, as in Auden’s “The Shield of...