Francis L. K. Hsu (28 October 1909 Zhuanghe County, Liaoning, China – 15 December 1999 Tiburon, California) was a China-born American anthropologist, one of the founders of psychological anthropology.
He entered Tianjin Nankai High School in 1923, graduated from the Department of Sociology at the University of Shanghai in 1933, entered the Graduate School of Fu Jen Catholic University in the same year, and later engaged in social work at Peking Union Medical College Hospital.
He has updated and renewed the methodology of cultural and personality research and expanded knowledge of large-scale civil society.
Hsu retired from Northwestern in 1978 and was hired by the University of San Francisco as the director of the Cultural Research Center.
[3] The American Anthropological Association established the Francis L. K. Hsu Book Prize to commemorate his contribution.