Over the course of several months, Paula E. Geyh, the review editor of Postmodern Culture, corresponded with the acclaimed author Ha Jin, conducting a long-term interview. Mr. Jin, a writing professor ...

Immigrants to America have always felt a mix of powerful influences from both their country of origin and their country of resettlement. In Ha Jin’s new novel, “The Boat Rocker,” these feelings become ...

Ha Jin was never terribly interested in learning English. After the Cultural Revolution ended and Chinese universities finally reopened in 1977, the 21-year-old from Liaoning applied to Heilongjiang ...

NEW YORK — Ha Jin’s “War Trash,” the fictional story of a Chinese prisoner during the Korean War, and Philip Short’s “Pol Pot,” a biography of the Cambodian dictator, were among the finalists ...

Ha Jin, National Book Award-winning author of Waiting, now gives us a deeply human biography of the 8th century poet, Li Bai–also known as Li Po–China’s most beloved poet. Drawing on a wide range of ...

Over the last two decades, Ha Jin has become one of America’s most celebrated writers. His stories and novels have received the PEN/Hemingway Prize, the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, the ...

FOXBOROUGH, MASS. — Ha Jin is a winner of the National Book Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His day job secure at Boston University, he and his wife live in a fine suburban house, close ...

Waiting, Ha Jin’s 1999 novel about a doctor torn between two very different women in a changing China, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction and won the PEN/Faulkner Prize and the National ...

The fictional character of the troubled artist, so often plagued by introspective maunderings, can make even a sympathetic reader long to escape. Into Stella Gibbons’s masterpiece “Cold Comfort Farm,” ...