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	Ha Jin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jin was born in Liaoning, China in 1956.
		His father was a military officer, and Jin joined the Chinese liberation army in 1969 during the Cultural Revolution.
		Jin was on scholarship at Brandeis University, in the United States, when the 1989 Tiananmen incident happened.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ha_Jin (270 words)

	New Georgia Encyclopedia: Ha Jin (b. 1956)
		Ha Jin is the pen name of Xuefei Jin, born February 21, 1956, in China's Liaoning Province.
		Jin's first novel, In the Pond, is a comic tale about a low-ranking worker at a Chinese fertilizer plant who publishes satiric cartoons about the Communist Party and company officials who have passed him over for a housing upgrade.
		The Crazed, Jin's third novel, concerns a graduate student's academic coming-of-age at the bedside of his mentor and future father-in-law, an esteemed professor whose "crazed" rants while recovering from a stroke reveal far more about himself and the oppressive life of a Chinese academician than the professor intends.
	www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2843 (874 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.
		HA JIN: Oh, perhaps because I write poetry also, and I was hired as a poet by Emory University.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/entertainment/july-dec99/ha-jin_nba_11-30.html (1034 words)

	LS Literary Supplement \| Extra \| January 1998 \| Under the Red Flag (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Ha Jin's potent new book of short stories, Under the Red Flag, reveals the physical and emotional torment of individuals forced to live within the confines of the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
		Her son, who has some degree of influence in the Province, is forced to weigh the conflict between conforming to the wishes of his mother to be buried and a Party decree that states the ground must be preserved for the living.
		Jin is the recipient of several awards, including the 1996 Pen/Hemingway Award for Fiction for his first short story collection, Ocean of Words; three Pushcart Prizes; the Kenyon Review Prize for Fiction and the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction for Under the Red Flag.
	www.newmassmedia.com /ls98jan/painted.html (586 words)

	B.U. Bridge: Boston University community's weekly newspaper
		When Ha Jin left Boston University nearly a decade ago, he was an emerging writer with a promising portfolio of fiction.
		This fall, Jin is teaching a fiction workshop open only to graduate students and a new English department course called Fiction of the Migrant, which is open to undergraduate students as well.
		Ha is the first character of Harbin, a city in northeastern China, where he went to university.
	www.bu.edu /bridge/archive/2002/09-13/hajin.htm (1021 words)

	NBA.com: Chats
		Ha Seung Jin was an early entry candidate for the 2004 NBA Draft.
		Seung Jin suffered an injury while playing with the team in the summer of 2004 and he spent the beginning of the 2004-05 season playing for the Portland Reign.
		Ha was a driving force behind Samil Commercial High's 22-game unbeaten streak in 2003, helping the school win four championships, including the high school basketball tournament at the National Sports Festival in Cheju in November 2003.
	proxy.espn.go.com /chat/chatNBA?event_id=7054 (912 words)

	Powell's Books - War Trash by Ha Jin
		"Ha Jin's taut drama of war, incarceration, coercion, and survival is galvanizing, and his ardently observant narrator is heroic in his grappling with the paradox of humankind's savagery and hunger for the divine."
		The seamless, somewhat unsettling fusion of invention and reportage is aided and abetted by the fact that Ha Jin taps into two ancient and honorable Western literary traditions — the novel in the form of a nonfiction memoir, and the nonfiction memoir as prison narrative....
		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....
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?isbn=0375422765 (1058 words)

	Waiting by Ha Jin: Book reviews, book club recommendations and recipes! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Jin's quiet but absorbing second novel (after In the Pond) captures the poignant dilemma of an ordinary man who misses the best opportunities in his life simply by trying to do his duty--as defined first by his traditional Chinese parents and later by the Communist Party.
		Ha Jin has said that the idea for Waiting came to him when he read a newspaper story about a woman who described her husband as loveless: "She wished her husband could have an affair with another woman....
		Ha Jin has not returned to China since he left in 1985; in 1990, he made a commitment to write and speak solely in English.
	www.wutheringbites.com /Read/bookpage2.asp?BookID=284 (1896 words)

	collectedstories: interview: Ha Jin
		has a chaotic schedule -- not only does he teach a full courseload at Emory in Atlanta, but he is also often scheduled for a number of readings across the country.
		"Ha" is the first word of the city's name "Harbin." I lived in that city for four years and liked it very much.
		Ha Jin's latest book, the October 2004 release of the novel War Trash, was announced in March 2005 as the winner of the 25th annual PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
	collectedstories.com /files/storyteller/hjin.html (1574 words)

	View From the Prison Camp - New York Times
		IN reading Ha Jin's powerfully moving ''War Trash,'' one might be forgiven for forgetting that it's a work of imaginative fiction and not a nonfiction account by an elderly Chinese man writing in fastidious, plain-spoken English of his years as a P.O.W. in United States and South Korean military prisons during the Korean War.
		Ha Jin, the author of the fine National Book Award-winning novel ''Waiting'' and several other works of fiction, was born and raised in China, but otherwise appears to have little in common with his narrator.
		Though his fate has been hammered and misshapen by powerful social and historical forces (the Chinese Civil War and the triumph of the Communists over the Nationalists, the Korean War, the Cultural Revolution, and the opening of China in the 1980's), he has always been a somewhat passive observer, stoical, reflective and sorrowful.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9803E2D61538F933A25753C1A9629C8B63 (576 words)

	Books at Book Clubs \| Ha Jin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Ha Jin’s masterful new novel casts a searchlight into a forgotten corner of modern history, the experience of Chinese soldiers held in U.S. POW camps during the Korean War.
		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...
		From the remarkable Ha Jin, winner of the National Book Award for his celebrated novel Waiting, a collection of comical and deeply moving tales of contemporary China that are as warm and human as they are surprising, disturbing, and delightful.
	www.bookclubs.ca /catalog/author.pperl?authorid=14545 (574 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Books: World of Books
		Jin says that by the end of the story, the man is a "criminal." When asked if it disturbed him to write about such an unlikable person, Jin says, "There was a kind of disgust in my heart, but it's true.
		Jin emphasizes the importance of writing about uncomfortable topics "because they are telling the truth." In the title story, a man shuns his son-in-law because he is gay.
		Jin's stories are reminiscent of Flannery O'Connor's in their cold and ironic humor; like O'Connor, Jin reveals the idiosyncrasies of his characters and his regional culture.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2000-11-10/books_set4.html (595 words)

	Waiting by Ha Jin : Booksamillion.com (0375706410, Paperback)
		Ha Jin profoundly understands the conflict between the individual and society, between the timeless universality of the human heart and constantly shifting politics of the moment.
		Jin's account of daily life in China is convincing and rich in detail."--The Chicago Tribune"Compassionate, earthy, robust, and wise, Waiting blends provocative allegory with all-too-human comedy.
		Ha Jin's understanding of the human heart and the human condition transcends borders and time.
	www.booksamillion.com /ncom/books?pid=0375706410 (256 words)

	Book Review of Waiting, By Ha Jin - Literary Fiction
		Out of respect and obedience, he marries at a young age to a woman eight years older than he is. He is embarrassed because she has bound feet and is obviously part of Old China, while he strives to be part of New China.
		Ha Jin writes simply but beautifully about a wide range of emotions and situations not limited to the setting of China.
		Ha Jin could write about the complex relationship between Lin and Manna, or he could write about broccoli, and I would both stories with the same amount of captured interest.
	www.bellaonline.org /articles/art15507.asp (689 words)

	New York State Writers Institute - Ha Jin Gazette Article
		Ha Jin said he joined the military as a way to leave home, because it was during the time of the Cultural Revolution in China and the schools were all closed.
		When the colleges reopened in 1977, Jin passed the entrance exams and went to Heilonjang University, where he was assigned to study English, even though it was his last choice for a major.
		Jin does not consider himself a political writer, yet many of his characters are affected by politics.
	www.albany.edu /writers-inst/gaz_jin_ha.html (897 words)

	Renowned author Ha Jin on campus: Honored with 1999 National Book Award in November (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Jin, a native of China, won for his latest novel, "Waiting," a masterful fairy tale of love and politics set in rural China.
		Jin was born in 1956 in Liaoning, China, and joined the People's Liberation Army at the age of 14.
		Jin will be introduced by Carl Phillips, associate professor of English and African and Afro-American studies, both in Arts & Sciences.
	record.wustl.edu /archive/1999/12-02-99/articles/jin.html (516 words)

	Bookreporter.com - Author Profile: Ha Jin
		Born in mainland China, Ha Jin grew up in a small rural town in Liaoning Province.
		WAITING Ha Jin's first full-length novel, is the winner of the 1999 National Book Award for Fiction and the 2000 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award for fiction.
		Having only written in English for twelve years, Jin's mastery of the language is indeed astounding and can be enjoyed in novels, short stories, and poetry.
	www.bookreporter.com /authors/au-jin-ha.asp (1449 words)

	Powells.com Interviews - Ha Jin
		Xuefei Jin known to readers as Ha Jin, began writing in English barely twelve years ago.
		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.
	www.powells.com /authors/jin.html (2231 words)

	Ha Jin page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Ha Jin was born in Liaoning, China, in 1956.
		Anyone in the West who picks up Ha Jin for the first time must experience a close approximation of what readers of Arthur Koestler or Isaac Babel felt 60 years ago, insofar as Ha Jin is the first Chinese Communist to make fictional use of daily life under the Party.
		"Ha Jin, who writes in English, is a Chinese veteran of the People's Liberation Army and, although he doesn't address political dissidence directly in his work, the 12 stories here all contain that undercurrent of cynicism in the face of authority that's common to military (as well as Communist) societies.
	worldwriters.english.sbc.edu /jin.html (374 words)

	Gunnery
		On Friday February 11 author and Boston University professor, Ha Jin, spoke to Gunnery’s student body, faculty and guests as the 2005 Distinguished Author in the ongoing Gunnery Speaker Series.
		Jin told the students and guests of his transition from being a Chinese writer in the Chinese language to an American citizen writing in English.
		Jin said that, although he had a continuing interest in China, he now thought of the United States as home.
	www.gunnery.org /gunnery/news/displayArticle.aspx?articleID=500 (317 words)

	Ha tackles Blazer learning curves \| PortlandTribune.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Ha, who won’t turn 20 until August, is two months younger than teammate Sebastian Telfair but light-years behind in terms of savvy and readiness for the rigors of the NBA game.
		Ha says he has been seduced by Portland’s mild winter and the affability of those in the community.
		He was signed by the Blazers in late December and has seen action in four NBA games, missing one shot and collecting two rebounds in 14 minutes.
	www.portlandtribune.com /archview.cgi?id=28681 (1045 words)

	On Point : War Trash - War Trash
		Ha Jin is a National Book Award Winner and former member of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.
		Two generations and half a world away, the tale still has a strong echo to the historical moment we are living in now.
		Ha Jin, 1999 National Book Award and PEN/Faulkner Award winner for his novel, Waiting.
	www.onpointradio.org /shows/2004/10/20041028_b_main.asp (322 words)

	Salon.com Books \| "The Bridegroom" by Ha Jin
		Ha Jin's third story collection describes how normal Chinese people pick their way through a communist-bureaucratic tangle of sex rules, food quotas, official marriage-encouragements and worse.
		Jin's focus wanders here more than it does, say, in the title story, which tells about a sensitive, handsome, clean-living bachelor, Huang Baowen, who surprises the narrator by proposing marriage to a homely young woman.
		Jin's characters always hope for special advantage, what you might call Party favors; and in this case the commisar has sent his old flame 60 pounds of fresh salmon and several gallons of soy oil.
	archive.salon.com /books/review/2000/10/11/jin/print.html (980 words)

	Ha Jin Biography and List of Works - Ha Jin Books
		Jin Xuefei (born February 21, 1956) is a contemporary Chinese-American writer using the pen name Ha Jin.
		Jin was under a scholarship at the Brandeis University, the United States, when the 1989 Tiananmen incident broke out.
		He has won a number of awards for his writing, including The National Book Award for his novel, Waiting (1999).
	www.biblio.com /authors/45/Ha_Jin_Biography.html (304 words)

	RFA: On Human Dignity, Prisoners of War, and Publishers: Chinese Author Ha Jin
		WASHINGTON—Chinese author Ha Jin, who has lived in the United States for nearly 20 years and writes in English, says his latest prize-winning novel, War Trash, is unlikely to be read in China because of its controversial subject matter: prisoners of war.
		Jin said the title of his novel, which has won him his second PEN/Faulkner award, recalled the English expression “white trash” and was intended to reflect the way in which common soldiers are frequently treated as expendable in war.
		While Jin’s earlier work, Waiting, has been published in Chinese, War Trash is unlikely to be seen by Chinese readers in the foreseeable future, he said.
	www.rfa.org /english/news/arts/2005/03/28/hajin (843 words)

	Amazon.com: Waiting : A Novel (Vintage International): Books: Ha Jin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Ha Jin himself served in the People's Liberation Army, and in fact left his native country for the U.S. only in 1985.
		Jin's quiet but absorbing second novel (after In the Pond) captures the poignant dilemma of an ordinary man who misses the best opportunities in his life simply by trying to do his dutyAas defined first by his traditional Chinese parents and later by the Communist Party.
		There is a two-fold approach: the universal, in which Ha Jin deals with human nature, its virtues and frailties, the issues of loyalty, duty, friendship, betrayal, and love; and the strictly Chinese, the social/political system.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375706410?v=glance (2222 words)

	BU.EDU : Creative Writing Department
		Born in China in 1956, Xuefei Jin (Ha Jin is his pen name) was a teenager when China entered the Cultural Revolution.
		Ha Jin earned his Master’s Degree at Shandong University in China, and in 1986 came to the United States to begin his doctoral work at Brandeis.
		In addition to the National Book award, Ha Jin received the Pen/Hemingway award for his first collection of short stories, Ocean of Words, and the Flannery O’Connor prize for his second, Under the Red Flag.
	www.bu.edu /writing/jin.html (196 words)

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