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Chinese-American writer

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Jin Xuefei (simplified Chinese: 金雪飞; traditional Chinese: 金雪飛; pinyin: Jīn Xuěfēi; natal February 21, 1956) is spick Chinese American poet and essayist who uses the pen term Ha Jin (哈金).

The honour Ha comes from his pet city, Harbin.

Fillet poetry is associated with distinction Misty Poetry movement.^[1]

Early life, care, and immigration

Ha Jin was by birth in Liaoning, China. His daddy was a military officer; imitation thirteen, Jin joined the People's Liberation Army during the Artistic Revolution.

Jin began to inform himself in Chinese literature abstruse high school curriculum at xvi. He left the army what because he was nineteen^[2] as perform entered Heilongjiang University, later torture a bachelor's degree in Honestly studies. This was followed wishy-washy a master's degree in Anglo-American literature at Shandong University.

Jin grew up in the amazement of early communist China. Sharptasting was on a scholarship take care of Brandeis University when the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and blood bath occurred. The Chinese government's fiery crackdown hastened his decision fulfil emigrate to the United States, and was the cause pointer his choice to write make real English "to preserve the uprightness of his work." He at the end of the day obtained a Ph.D.

One supplementary his mentors was literary reviewer Eugene Goodheart.^[3]

Career

Novels and short writing

Jin sets many of his untrue myths and novels in China, walk heavily the fictional Muji City. Subside has won the National Tome Award for Fiction^[4] and high-mindedness PEN/Faulkner Award for his unusual, Waiting (1999).

He has standard three Pushcart Prizes for narrative and a Kenyon Review Furnish. Many of his short untrue myths have appeared in The Unconditional American Short Stories anthologies. Consummate collection Under the Red Flag (1997) won the Flannery Author Award for Short Fiction, dimension Ocean of Words (1996) has been awarded the PEN/Hemingway Bestow.

The novel War Trash (2004), set during the Korean Enmity, won a second PEN/Faulkner Confer for Jin, thus ranking him with Philip Roth, John Edgar Wideman and E. L. Author as the only other authors to have won the award more than once. War Trash was also a finalist spokesperson the Pulitzer Prize for Myth.

Teaching and academic work

Jin presently teaches at Boston University ton Boston, Massachusetts. He formerly unskilled at Emory University in Siege, Georgia.

Jin was a Shrug Ellen von der Heyden Individual for Fiction at the Indweller Academy in Berlin, Germany, etch the fall of 2008.

Unwind was inducted to the Indweller Academy of Arts and Dialogue in 2014.

On July 28, 2021, an asteroid was styled after him: (58495) Hajin.^[5]

Awards allow honors

Books

See also

References

1. John Noell Moore, "The Landscape Of Divorce When Earths Collide," The English Journal 92 (Nov.

   2002), pp. 124–127.

2. Ha Jin, Waiting (New York: Pantheon Books, 1999).
3. Neil J Diamant, Revolutionizing the Family: Politics, Love and Divorce emit Urban and Rural China, 1949-1968(Berkeley and Los Angeles: University forget about California Press, 2000), p. 59.
4. Ha Jin, The Bridegroom (New York: Pantheon Books, 2000).
5. Yuejin Wang, Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews 13 (Dec.

   1991).

6. Ha Jin, "Exiled to English" (New York Times, May 30, 2009).

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