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Hsia Chih-tsing (born 1921, Shanghai) is a Chinese literary critic. He went to the United States in 1947 and received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1951. His seminal work, A History of Modern Chinese Fiction, published in 1961, is credited with introducing people in Taiwan to the literary movements of the 1930s and 1940s in mainland China. In 2006, he was elected to the Academia Sinica at the age of 85, making him the oldest person ever so named.[1][2]
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