1. Ha Jin | Biography, Books, Waiting, War Trash, & Facts | Britannica
6 days ago · Ha Jin (born February 21, 1956, Jinzhou, Liaoning province, China) is a Chinese American writer who uses plain, unadorned English prose to ...
Ha Jin is a Chinese American writer who uses plain, unadorned English prose to explore the tension between the individual and the family, the modern and the traditional, and personal feelings and duty. His notable novels include Waiting (1999) and War Trash (2004).
2. The Accidental Immigrant | Brandeis Magazine
Exiled by political events in his native China, novelist Ha Jin, MA'89, PhD'93, H'05, discovered freedom writing in the English language.
Like anyone born in China in 1956, Jin entered a world in which accidents lurked around every corner. Mao Zedong and other Chinese leaders, looking for a shortcut to industrialization, launched the hastily conceived Great Leap Forward in 1958. By the time Jin was 6, an estimated 20 million people had died of starvation. Four years later, the Cultural Revolution plunged China’s cities into disarray. Neighbors tattled on one another. All schools were closed. If you were suspected of having a sliver of an education, you were banished to labor in the countryside. One day, a posse of Red Guards rolled through Jin’s neighborhood and torched his father’s library. A propaganda officer in the People’s Liberation Army, Jin’s father was ordered to hit the road to spread the disruptive messages of the time. Jin’s mother, whose father had been a small landowner, was sent to a rural farm. Before his mother left, Jin remembers her being shoved into a garbage can for humiliation’s sake. He doesn’t remember why. Jin briefly became a young Red Guard himself, running with a gang of red-kerchiefed youth. He saw firsthand the public persecutions of the Cultural Revolution: teachers beaten, bureaucrats paraded with dunce caps on their heads, women accused of adultery and assaulted. When the government announced a war with the Soviet Union was imminent, Jin lied about his age and enlisted in the PLA. He figured it was better to fight than wait for a nuclear winter. The army sent Jin to the frigid r...
3. Ha Jin: Biography, Poems, Books & Life | Vaia
Ha Jin is a Chinese-American poet and author. He was born in Liaoning, China, in 1956 but decided to live in the US after the Tiananmen Square Massacre. Jin has ...
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4. Ha Jin | The Poetry Foundation
Ha Jin was born Xuefei Jin in Liaoning Province, China. He grew up during the Cultural Revolution, served in the army, and earned both his BA and MA at Chinese ...
Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.
5. The Two Sides of Ha Jin - The New Yorker
Aug 16, 2021 · In 1989 came the event that changed Jin's life irrevocably, the Tiananmen massacre. For days, he and his wife sat agape in front of their ...
His early stories of China deployed unsparing brutality, but his latest novel shows his affinity for stoicism, irony, and modesty.
6. An Interview with Ha Jin - Asymptote Journal
Xuefei Jin, better known by his nom de plume Ha Jin, is a literary improbability. The son of an officer in the People's Liberation Army, he was born in 1956 ...
Xuefei Jin, better known by his nom de plume Ha Jin, is a literary improbability. The son of an officer in the People’s Liberation Army, he was born in 1956 in the Northeastern Chinese city of Jinzhou. For two years he attended a military boarding school, but his prima
7. Timeless and Urgent: On Ha Jin's Waiting and the Mercy of the Arbitrary
Sep 10, 2024 · In Jin's story, a Western fast food chain opens in Northern China. East–West clashes and hilarity ensue. I adored the story. Here was a writer ...
Picture a teenager in a suburban Southern California Costco, lingering by the books tables while her parents shopped. There, between the boxed vacuums and party-size clamshells of croissants, I fir…
8. Spring 1998: Ha Jin - Emory Magazine
While Jin admits there are elements of his life and experiences in much of his writing, he says his work is not autobiographical, a practice he tells his ...
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH XUEFEI JIN'S STORIES OF CHINA DURING THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION HAVE WON PRAISE FOR THEIR SIMPLE STYLE AND UNDERSTATED BEAUTY
9. “The Banished Immortal: A Life of Li Bai” by Ha Jin
Feb 26, 2019 · Li Bai was pardoned before he reached his destination and died in the Dangtu area, now in Anhui province. Ha Jin comes up with an adventure ...
If it hadn’t been for Ezra Pound and a 20th-century literature course at university, I would never have heard of Li Bai, and even then I thought his name was Rihaku, because in 1915 Pound, who knew…
10. Interview: Ha Jin, Author Of 'A Map Of Betrayal' - NPR
Nov 1, 2014 · Ha Jin's new spy novel resembles the story of the real-life Chinese ... HA JIN: He claimed that he was basically serving both countries.
Ha Jin's new spy novel resembles the story of the real-life Chinese agent Larry Chin — and echoes the expat author's own experiences. But, he notes, a writer's life is less political than a spy's.
11. Author Ha Jin Opens Up About His Life and Work | Arts & Sciences
May 2, 2014 · CAS Creative Writing Professor Ha Jin didn't plan on being a fiction writer. He moved to the United States from China in 1985 to study American ...
May 2, 2014 | in CAS, Faculty, Features, Global
12. I Dare Not: The Muted Style of Writer in Exile Ha Jin
Jan 11, 2015 · He has not returned to China since he left in the mid-1980s, and the Chinese government refuses to grant him a visa, even when his mother was ...
As a new generation of Chinese writer-exiles settles in the West, we wonder whether Jin’s flat, alienating style will come to be regarded as a kind of artifact, a self-preserving fossil of the trauma generated by those who witnessed the mixture of real and manufactured emotion that fueled a collective mania.
13. A Fallen Artist in Mao's China | ChinaFile
Dec 7, 2023 · Ha Jin, a former soldier in the Chinese army who came to the U.S. in 1985 at age 29 to do graduate study, has written 10 novels in English as ...
This book will be denounced in Beijing. Ha Jin’s The Woman Back from Moscow is a novel based on the life of Sun Weishi, an adopted daughter of Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai, whose brilliant mind and intensive study in Moscow of the Stanislavski acting method brought her to the pinnacle of China’s theatrical world during the Mao years.
14. Dissident author Ha Jin on life in Boston and exile from China
Feb 20, 2015 · Jin's politics have proved fatal to any attempts to visit home. In 1997, the Chinese government refused to renew Jin's passport; when he later ...
Despite 30 years in the US, the writer and poet continues to feel the pull of a homeland he can never return to
15. Ha Jin - New Georgia Encyclopedia
Ha Jin is the pen name of Xuefei Jin, born February 21, 1956, in China's Liaoning Province. He grew up during the turbulent years of the Cultural Revolution, ...
Ha Jin is a widely acclaimed author of novels, short stories, and poetry. He launched his writing career in 1990—just three years before joining the creative writing faculty of Emory University in Atlanta—with the publication of a collection of poems entitled Between Silences: A Voice from China. Since that first book, Jin has produced numerous other […]