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	Dongyi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		During the Spring and Autumn Period, Jin, Zheng, Qi and Song tried to seize control of the Huai River basin, which was occupied by the Huaiyi.
		The Book of Jin positioned Dongyi inside the section of "Siyi" (barbarians in four directions) along with "Xirong", "Nanman" and "Beidi".
		The Book of Sui, the Book of Tang and the New Book of Tang adopt the section of "Dongyi" and covers eastern Manchuria, Korea, Japan and optionally Sakhalin and Taiwan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dongyi (1437 words)

	The Hindu : Ha Jin's fiction
		Jin's original plan was to return to China after obtaining the Ph.D. but as he watched the brutal violence and massacre of young students in 1989 on the Tiananmen Square on TV, he gave up the idea of returning to China.
		The book is still banned in China as it is considered a plot to show "China's backwardness and the stupidity of the Chinese people".
		Ha Jin decries the fraudulence of the academic world and the bickering and power struggles of professors with graphic details and of their extremely dangerous and cruel games of survival.
	www.hindu.com /thehindu/lr/2003/02/02/stories/2003020200390600.htm (1157 words)

	Qiu Jin Lecture
		Jin is the author of The Culture of Power: The Lin Biao Incident in the Cultural Revolution.
		Jin is the daughter of General Wu Faxian, the Chinese air force's commander-in-chief at the time of the incident.
		Hence, her research and writing of this book was driven by a "determination to set the historical record straight." Thanks to her "insider" status, Jin was able to interview a number of important sources, most notably Lin Doudou, Lin Biao's daughter.
	newsoffice.wlu.edu /NewsReleases/3453.html (257 words)

	Online NewsHour: National Book Awards- November 30, 1999
		HA JIN: I first began studying English at age of 20 in 1966, and there was a learner program in China that started in the morning from 5:30 to 6:00 during the weekdays.
		HA JIN: This story is a love story in a kind of bizarre way, because this is a story about a man who is not capable of loving others.
		Jin, I was really struck in reading your novel by the spare, very beautiful style that you achieved.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/entertainment/july-dec99/ha-jin_nba_11-30.html (1051 words)

	China bans Ha Jin's prize-winning novel "Waiting" - Salon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The novel, "Waiting" by Ha Jin, tells the story of a Chinese military doctor who was forced into an arranged marriage and has been trying for years to get a divorce so he can marry the nurse he loves.
		Jin, a former member of the Chinese People's Liberation Army who left China in 1985, said the publisher informed him in an e-mail last week that it was canceling plans to bring out a Chinese-language version of the book.
		Jin said the publisher told him Liu's essay in the state-controlled media had made it impossible to publish "Waiting" in China.
	dir.salon.com /story/books/wire/2000/06/22/waiting/print.xml (420 words)

	The 18-Year Itch - New York Times
		Ha Jin's book could hardly be less theatrical, yet we're immediately engaged by its narrative structure, by its wry humor and by the subtle, startling shifts it produces in our understanding of the characters and their situation.
		But in the book's final section, we discover -- after a series of turns that seem at once inventive and inevitable -- that the conventional wisdom about the consequences of answered prayers is dishearteningly valid in any language.
		Supported by this framework of plot is an entire world painstakingly constructed with revelatory details, with gestures and exchanges that illuminate the inner lives of the characters and the way their hopes and anxieties, passions and longings are molded -- and blasted -- by the heat with which the state breathes down their necks.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9F05E6D61330F937A15753C1A96F958260 (667 words)

	Bookreporter.com - THE BRIDEGROOM by Ha Jin
		After winning both the 1999 National Book Award and the 2000 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for his last book, WAITING, Ha Jin returns with a collection of 12 stories encompassing very personal dramas involving Chinese citizens in contemporary China.
		Ha Jin left his native land for the United States in 1985 and he clearly hasn't come to terms with the outrageous disrespect for humanity and human rights that is apparently the law of the land in this transitional phase of a confused but still mighty nation.
		Jin is an interesting writer in that he doesn't try to contain his vitriol against the system that forced him out of the country before the unsuccessful student rebellion and the massacre of Tiananmen Square.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0375724931.asp (353 words)

	Dan Schneider on Ha Jin's Waiting
		While not a bad book, necessarily, it is not a good book, as it is excruciatingly dry and empty.
		This story is not, or if it is, Ha Jin is not the writer capable of telling it, for a great writer can, by dint of his technical mastery of words, make the most banal of lives seem interesting by the choice and deployment of words.
		Jin, however, writes dully on dull events and people, content to let the PC trappings of the exotic do the heavy lifting a strong narrative should accomplish.
	www.cosmoetica.com /B354-DES293.htm (1465 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Ha Jin - Books: Meet the Writers
		National Book Award winner Ha Jin writes about the tribulations of life in Chinese society with dark humor and an economical but effective prose style.
		Jin's most ambitious work to date, War Trash is a powerful, unflinching story that opens a window on an unknown aspect of a little-known war -- the experiences of Chinese POWs held by Americans during the Korean conflict.
		Jin's moving second novel won the National Book Award for its portrayal of a doctor constrained by Chinese society, forced to wait 18 years for freedom from his arranged marriage so that he can join his true love.
	www.barnesandnoble.com /writers/writer.asp?userid=0BGRJQMNRU&cds2Pid=1302&cid=882816&linkid=240051 (267 words)

	Amazon.com: War Trash: A novel: Books: Ha Jin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Jin (Waiting; The Crazed; etc.) applies his steady gaze and stripped-bare storytelling to the violence and horrifying political uncertainty of the Korean War in this brave, complex and politically timely work, the story of a reluctant soldier trying to survive a POW camp and reunite with his family.
		After reading through the book, we would come to an appreciation that the soldiers did what they were instructed to do and to do their job well.
		Whilst the book is rather dry to read through, it is written with grit and conviction, akin to a documentary piece, as if the reader is one of the convicts living through the whole ordeal.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375422765?v=glance (2259 words)

	book review - Waiting Ha Jin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		What is so impressive about this novel is the fact that Jin is writing about a communist society without the feeling of oppressiveness that often accompanies such novels.
		While Jin gives his reader insight into the Chinese culture, the characters Jin has created could easily be the neighbors down the street.
		I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book, and felt that Waiting is one of the best novels I have read in a long time.
	www.fiction-net.co.uk /review-waiting.htm (546 words)

	Ha Jin: ZoomInfo Business People Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Ha Jin's summary was automatically generated using 5 references found on the Internet.
		He is the author of two books of poetry; two collections of stories, Ocean of Words, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award in 1997, and Under the Red Flag, which won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction in 1996; and In the Pond, a novel.
		War Trash, the extraordinary new novel by the National Book Award-winning author of Waiting, is Ha Jin's most ambitious work to date: a powerful, unflinching story that opens a window on an unknown aspect of a little-known war-the experiences of Chinese POWs held by Americans during the Korean conflict-and paints an...
	www.zoominfo.com /people/jin_ha_154560919.aspx (502 words)

	Feng Shui Seminars with Roger Green
		There was widespread use of feng shui amongst the ruling class and populous as well as stories of Feng Shui masters were recorded in the book 'Jin-Shu' (the book of Jin Dynasty).
		It is at this time that the book on water 'Shui Jing' which was written earlier during the three kingdoms' period (220-280 A.D.) was further elaborated to include more details on the waterways of China.
		At this time,Chinese theories on the nature of the Universe such as Taoism and Confucianism began to be blended with Feng Shui theories, and yin/yang, trigrams of the Ba Gua and the five elements took their place in Feng Shui methods.
	www.fengshuiseminars.com /articles/history.html (3442 words)

	Powells.com Interviews - Ha Jin
		After watching televised coverage of the Tiananmen Square massacre, however, Jin and his wife decided to make a life with their son here in the United States, and when Jin couldn't find teaching work, he turned to writing, instead.
		Jin: Those four have poems which are related to Chinese texts and poems that reference the culture.
		The book focuses on its framework and references to ground the story in a place and time, but other than that, I don't see the point in bringing up too many temporary references.
	www.powells.com /authors/jin.html (2233 words)

	Waiting by Ha Jin - Multiple Book Reviews & Book Jacket Summary
		This is the story of Lin Kong, a man living in two worlds, struggling with the conflicting claims of two utterly different women as he moves through the political minefields of a society designed to regulate his every move and stifle the promptings of his innermost heart.
		Tracing these lives through their summer of decision and beyond, Ha Jin vividly conjures the texture of daily life in a place where the demands of human longing must contend with the weight of centuries of custom.
		Ha Jin depicts the details of social etiquette, of food, of rural family relationships and the complex yet alarmingly primitive fabric of provincial life with that absorbed passion for minutiae characteristic of Dickens and Balzac."
	www.bookbrowse.com /reviews/index.cfm?book_number=488 (495 words)

	BU Bridge News - Week of 3 December 1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Ha Jin was in his early twenties when he began learning English, his early thirties when he began writing fiction in English, and his early forties when he won the National Book Award for Waiting (Pantheon Books, 1999), a novel written in English.
		Ha Jin, who has taught English at Emory University since 1993, received the Hemingway/PEN Award for his first collection of short stories, Ocean of Words (Zoland Books, 1996), and the Flannery O'Connor Award for his second, Under the Red Flag (University of Georgia Press, 1997).
		Prior to the National Book Award, however, he has tended to be viewed as an emerging writer.
	www.bu.edu /bridge/archive/1999/12-03/features2.html (640 words)

	The Index - While Ha Jin waits, campus debates
		She said the aversion of the senior class to Ha Jin is a reflection of intolerance for diversity.
		Mozina said, "[Ha Jin's] personality is a little reserved, a shy type of guy." According to Mozina, this could have contributed to his seemingly unengaged attitude while on campus.
		Mozina said Ha Jin was one of the best writers working in English literature right now and hinted he may be one more good novel away from being on the short list of a Nobel Peace Prize.
	www.kzoo.edu /index/20060302/whj.html (661 words)

	Moviehole.net - Sin-Jin Smyth gets Booked
		We’re told the book (rumoured to be a limited edition release) will include interviews with the cast/crew, exclusive pictures, concept designs and a few surprises.
		So, unlike my “Jedi” book — which George Lucas probably hasn’t even seen — the man behind the movie is actually involved in this thing, so it’s bound to be worth a pick-up, read and place on the pine bookshelf.
		Said book will not only feature the rough and tumble characters in the film, but also incorporate new characters, story mythology, concept art (by Sin-jin Smyth Concept artist John Turner), history, parallel storylines and the presence of Mr.
	www.moviehole.net /news/20060426_sinjin_smyth_gets_booked.html (369 words)

	War Trash by Ha Jin - Multiple Book Reviews & Book Jacket Summary
		It's a brilliant and original enjambment, and Ha Jin pulls it off with mastery; the result is that his narrator, Yu Yuan, is one of the most fully realized characters to emerge from the fictional world in years.
		Ha Jin is one of the finest writers in America:Â subtle, huge-hearted, possessed of an utterly original, mind-altering vision of the world, and an exquisite, disciplined style.Â His work never fails to thrill me, and expand my ideas about life, and about the transformative powers of fiction.
		Ha Jin is emerging as a major figure in the literary interpretation of life in Communist China.
	www.bookbrowse.com /reviews/index.cfm?book_number=1493 (821 words)

	ReadingGroupGuides.com - The Crazed by Ha Jin
		Ha Jin's seismically powerful new novel is at once an unblinking look into the bell jar of communist Chinese society and a portrait of the eternal compromises and deceptions of the human state.
		When the venerable professor Yang, a teacher of literature at a provincial university, has a stroke, his student Jian Wan is assigned to care for him.
		Ha Jin gives us minute details of everyday life in Shanning town—the sight of billboards promoting "Aim High, Go All Out" and of laundry on balconies flapping in the wind, the taste of simmering tofu and pomegranate tea, and the smell of stewed radishes.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides3/crazed1.asp (879 words)

	Lahiri, Dubus, Jin, Suri, Tsukiyama, book reviews
		The heart of the book is a unique love-triangle story that he gradually uncovers involving Matsu and two other local villagers -- Matsu's best friend Sachi, and Kenzo, who suffers from leprosy and has been ostracized for many years.
		In all these books, the role of the author as a cultural interpreter for an American audience is key.
		The books are addressed to people who start with a different set of assumptions and beliefs than ours, and to fully appreciate them, we need to learn more about their history, religion, and culture.
	www.samizdat.com /isyn/cultural.html (1383 words)

	War Trash by Ha Jin
		I am enthralled by Ha Jin's work: he always presents moral conundrums within historical contexts; the frayed edges of humanity; the ways in which both the tenacious and hopeless survive.
		Ha Jin is one of the finest writers in America: subtle, huge-hearted, possessed of an utterly original, mind-altering vision of the world, and an exquisite, disciplined style.
		Under the rules of war and the constraints of captivity, every human instinct is called into question, to the point that what it means to be human comes to occupy the foremost position in every prisoner's mind.
	www.fantasticfiction.co.uk /h/ha-jin/war-trash.htm (474 words)

	Amazon.ca: Jin Woo: Books: Chris K. Soentpiet,Eve Bunting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		David warms up to Jin Woo as he coaxes the first laugh from his new baby brother on the ride home from the airport, and the book ends with him giving a beloved duck mobile to Jin Woo after David is reassured that his parents have more than enough love to go around.
		When Jin Woo arrives (about six months old, I'd say), David gets to hold him, and when he plays "this little piggy" with his little brother, he is the recipient of Jin Woo's first laugh.
		The book Jin Woo tells a story with words but you don't have to look at the words.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0395938724 (1215 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Secrets of Jin-Shei: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		An amazing and unusual book, based on some historical fact, full of drama, adventure and conflict like a Shakespearean history play, it's a novel about kinship and a society of women, of mysticism, jealousy, fate, destiny, all set in the wonderful, swirling background of medieval China.
		Having only recently finished the book I am currently mourning all the jin-shei-bao and regretting having to leave them all behind and venture into the world of alternative books to read next.
		This book is fantastic, I agree with the comments of all the previous reviews and I know I will re-read this book again and again for its strong characterisation, wonderfully descriptive setting and a story that pulls you in.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0007163746 (787 words)

	The Xingyi Boxing Manual By Jin Yunting - Book Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		For the first time being published in English, this treatise was written in China during the 1930's before World War Two shattered the world as it was known.
		A product of generations of bodyguard and mercenary fighting academies, this book recorded the training phrases and poems that guided the students of these fighting schools.
		The martial art of Xingyi was famous for its clear minded but unstoppable practitioners, many of whom graduated to become leading caravan guards or to enter into the private security business in pre-war China, where police services were virtually non-existent.
	www.fit4martialarts.com /kick/view_content?obj_id=128&obj_type_id=15 (143 words)

	Gai-Jin home Mortgage and repair how to book. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Clavell is often ranked among the greatest writers of the last quarter of the twentieth-century, and I am not at all sure he belongs there.
		Clavell combines characters that descend from the two previous books in Japan of 1862.
		Some complain of the latter half of the book and the ending without a major climax.
	www.buyhomerepairbooks.com /books/isbn044021680X.html (1107 words)

	War Trash -- book review
		The narrator/hero of the book is Yu Yuan, an old man recalling and reflecting on the past.
		He is quickly captured and most of the book concerns his tenure in various POW camps where he is forced to choose between Maoism and the freedom to ally himself with the winners.
		One can read this book thinking of today’s political prisoners, and speculate on the question of loyalties and the train of circumstance that brings people to fight blindly for a cause they don’t necessarily believe in.
	www.curledup.com /wartrash.htm (596 words)

	Health Library.com -- Book Reviews
		This is the first book of its kind written by a Westerner to explore in light of modern science the balanced and comprehensive system of health care used to Chinese physicians, martial artists and meditators for over 5,000 years.
		This book describes Jin Shin Jyutsu which is a Japanese art of happiness, longevity and benevolence.
		Through this art the author has tried to create awareness to the simple fact that all is needed for harmony and balance physically, mentally, emotionally, digestively and spiritually.
	healthlibrary.com /bookreviews/1-6-mar04.html (384 words)

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