Word: hsu
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...inside me," I have a different reaction. Having recently made my own Asian journey home and with three identities deeply inculcated in me, I find it hard to adapt to wherever I live?except in my own house, where I try to bring a little bit of everything together. Hsu Ping-Ya Taipei...
...reality, the story of Ji and Hsu is more one of dogged, thrifty perseverance. The two became friends in the late 1980s working for a Los Angeles scrap-metal business that exported to China. Hsu was a Taiwanese immigrant who arrived in 1984. Ji came to Los Angeles as a graduate student in 1987, having recently earned his M.B.A., and was sending money home to his wife and daughter in Shanghai...
...started a side business importing speakers and amplifiers, and later DVD players, from China. The first units they imported and sold through Circuit City differed from others sold in the U.S. at the time in that they could play MP3 files. The players also sported a quirk Ji and Hsu say they were unaware of: a manufacturing error allowed users to copy DVDs to videotape and override coding that prevents DVDs of films from being viewed in countries where they have not been released...
...Hsu are expanding the Apex brand. They launched a television line earlier this year and are looking into digital cameras and air conditioners. Both men rack up loads of frequent-flyer miles across the Pacific. "I'm much busier than I want to be," says Hsu, the father of a girl, 8, and a boy, 4. He likes to spend his downtime watching cartoons with the kids and teaching his daughter to roller-skate...
...slight man who accompanies handshakes with a subtle bow, has yet to embrace the trappings of executive life. His daughter, Jean, 24, who with her mother joined Ji in 1994, says her father eschews luxury items. A Cartier watch, a gift from Hsu, sits ignored in a drawer while Ji continues wearing the same beat-up Swiss-made Cyma timepiece that he's been changing wristbands on for at least a decade. An employee was recently shocked to find Ji, ever practical, scrubbing the men's room at company headquarters. Such modesty fits nicely with Apex Digital's products, which...