Few writers have appeared on the American literary scene to such sudden acclaim as the Chinese émigré Ha Jin. His first short-story collection about life in the Chinese People's Liberati...
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Ha Jin has published volumes of poetry, collections of short stories, and novels. His short fiction in Ocean of Words: Army Stories (1996) and Under the Red Flag (1997) won praise from critics and two...
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[In the following review of Ocean of Words, the writer notes Jin's "talent for humor" and "good writing."]
Set on the Chinese-Russian border in the early 1970s, t...
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[In the review below, Solomon summarizes the themes and tone of Ocean of Words.]
A veteran of the People's Army, the Chinese poet Ha Jin (who now teaches at Emory University) has produced a ...
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[In the following review, Lieu compares and contrasts Jin's Ocean of Words with Chinese writer Wang Ping's Foreign Devil.]
These are two extraordinary, original works of fiction, simi...
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[In the following review, Bricklebank faults the "political exigencies" of the themes and Jin's narrative technique in Under the Red Flag.]
Dismount Fort is a country town rule...
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Saul Bellow, Nobel laureate and dean of Jewish-American fiction, passed away on Tuesday, April 5. He was 89. Bellow, in such novels as Herzog, The Adventures of Augie March, Henderson the Rain King...
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Ha Jin
Ocean of Words
Saul Bellow (1915-2005)
