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Name: Ha Jin
Birth Date: February 21, 1956
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: Chinese
Gender: Male

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Biography of Ha Jin
7,979 words, approx. 27 pages
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 Liberation Army, Ocean of Words (1996), won the...
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Biography of Ha Jin
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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 prestigious literary prizes, the PEN/Hemingway and...


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Ha Jin Information
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Jīn Xuěfēi (Simplified Chinese: 金雪飞; Traditional Chinese: 金雪飛; born February 21, 1956) is a contemporary Chinese-American writer using the pen name Ha Jin...


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World Literature Today
Ha Jin: Wreckage.
01/01/2002: 535 words, approx. 2 pages
Brooklyn, N.Y. Hanging Loose 2001. 111 pages. $22 ($14 paper) ISBN 1-882413-98-9 (97-0 paper) GIVEN THE REMARKABLE popular success Ha Jin's prolific fiction has gained in the last few years, this volume of poetry will undoubtedly attract attention. Wreckage offers a sweeping...
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The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Talking With: Ha Jin
11/21/2004: 775 words, approx. 3 pages
Talking With: Ha Jin Five years ago, when he received the National Book Award for his lyrical novel, "Waiting," Ha Jin became the first winner to thank the English language. It was an "embracive and vibrant" tongue, he said in his acceptance speech,...
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The New York Observer
Saul Bellow (1915-2005)
4/10/2005: 1,698 words, approx. 6 pages
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, Mr. Sammler's Planet and, more recently, Ravelstein, examined the persistent anxieties of...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Ocean of Words
1,273 words, approx. 4 pages
[In the following review, Lieu compares and contrasts Jin's Ocean of Words with Chinese writer Wang Ping's Foreign Devil.]
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Ocean of Words
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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.]
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Ocean of Words
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[In the review below, Solomon summarizes the themes and tone of Ocean of Words.]
 


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