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From: World Literature Today[(review date summer 2000) In the review below, Kinkley praises Waiting, commenting on its relationship to contemporary Chinese literature.] The Ha Jin phenomenon rolls on Waiting, the novel under review, has won a...
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From: Studies in the Humanities[(essay date June 2005) In the following essay, Parascandola compares the portrayal of a totalitarian regime in Jin's Waiting with that in George Orwell's 1984, noting that a hope in the ultimate triumph of human...
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From:Short Stories for Students (Vol. 17. )Ha Jin's short story "In the Kindergarten" gives readers in-depth information about two main characters. One is five-year-old Shaona, who has been sent away to school recently, when she was replaced in her home by the...
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From: Library Journal[(review date 15 August 2004) In this review, Quan lauds War Trash, pronouncing it Jin's strongest effort to date.] Set during the Korean War, National Book Award winner Ha Jin's latest work [War Trash] is a historical...
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From: Publishers Weekly[(review date 30 September 2002) In the review below, Zaleski applauds The Crazed and concludes that novel will add to Jin's "reputation as the premier novelist of the Chinese Diaspora."] On the day after the Tiananmen...
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From: Transnational Literature[(essay date 2017) In the following essay, Martin applies Sucheng Chan’s concept of the “transmigrant” to an analysis of the lives depicted in Jin’s short-story collection A Good Fall.] Typically in fiction, an...
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From: CLCWeb[(essay date 2017) In the following essay, Prater examines animal characters as a representation of transnational relationships in Jin’s fiction. Chinese characters originally in this essay have been silently removed.]...
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From: Contemporary Literature[(essay date 2010) In the following interview, conducted in April 2009, Jin claims to have distanced himself from the disadvantaged members of society, but Varsava notes that his “evolving perceptions of his own ontology...
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From: Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese[(essay date 2005) In the following essay, Lo examines how Jin’s writings might encourage readers to consider “a new notion of national literature in our contemporary world.” Chinese characters originally in this essay...
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From: Guernica Magazine[(interview date 16 November 2006) In the following interview, originally conducted on November 16, 2006, Jin and GoGwilt discuss the author's process of becoming a writer, his decision to write in the English language,...
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From:Short Stories for Students (Vol. 17. )Ha Jin's short story "In the Kindergarten" is filled with deceit, which is used for several different purposes. Characters manipulate one another for personal gain, to ease sorrow, to avoid social persecution, and in...
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From: Christian Century 121[(review date 14 December 2004) In the following review, the critic applauds War Trash for its vivid characterization.] The "war trash" of Ha Jin's powerful novel [War Trash] are the Chinese soldiers--sent to fight for...
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From: World Literature Today[(review date winter 2002) In the following review, Twitchell-Waas critiques Wreckage, contending that the poetry collection risks pandering to negative perceptions of China widely held in the West.] Given the...
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From: Moving Migration: Narrative Transformations in Asian American Literature[(essay date 2010) In the following essay, Hofmann reads Jin’s adoption of the künstlerroman in A Free Life as an assertion of the right and responsibility of diasporic individuals to engage in personal choice.] Ha...
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From: Five Points[(essay date 2000) In the following interview, Jin discusses the theme of survival in his fiction, his vivid descriptions of food, and his poetry.] Ha Jin grew up in northeastern China during the Cultural Revolution,...
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From:[(essay date 2005) In the following excerpt, Kong discusses Jin’s choice to write in English and his focus on Chinese subject matter. Chinese characters originally in this essay have been silently removed.] Toward a...
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From: Powells.com[(interview date 2 February 2000) In the following interview, Jin and Weich discuss the novel Waiting, Jin's writing process, and his life in China before emigrating to the United States.] Xuefei Jin known to readers...
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From: Comparative Literature Studies[(essay date 2006) In the essay below, Ge contends that Jin's short story "A Tiger-Fighter Is Hard to Find" represents an allegory for a modern China struggling to relate to its past.] In recent years, Ha Jin, whose...
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From: Missouri Review[(review date 2004) Below, Summerhill comments that War Trash represents an ambitious rendering of little-known historical episodes in the Korean War.] The narrative power of Ha Jin's new novel, War Trash, hinges on...
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From:Short Stories for Students (Vol. 17. )From the time a child is very young, everyone--parents, teachers, other children--tries to teach him or her something. The things others say don't always make sense to a child; sometimes the message gets horribly...