In 1917, Tsiang was inspired by the Bolshevik Revolution led by Vladmir Lenin, and in 1926 attempted to migrate to the Soviet Union.
[3] He was involved with the Greenwich Village literary scene in the 1920s and 1930s, and self-published a number of books which he would hawk at downtown political meetings.
Back in print for the first time since it was originally self-published in 1935, Kaya’s new edition of the novel follows out-of-work protagonist Mr. Nut from a workers’ cafeteria to dinner clubs and sexual exploitation in the highest echelons of society, then back again to the streets of Greenwich Village, where starving families rub shoulders with the recently evicted.
Adventurous and unclassifiable in its combination of avant-garde and proletarian concerns, The Hanging on Union Square is a major rediscovery of a uniquely American voice".
[4] Cultural historian Alan M. Wald author of American Night: The Literary Left in the Era of the Cold War describes the book as, "An artist of distinction, H.T.