Ha Jin
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English
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In the bold tradition of the "Misty Poets," Ha Jin confronts China's fraught political history while paying tribute to its rich culture and landscape. The poems of A Distant Center speak in a voice that is steady and direct, balancing contemplative longing with sober warnings from a writer who has confronted the traumas of censorship and state violence. With unadorned language and epigrammatic wit, Jin conjures scenes that encompass the personal,...
3) The crazed
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English
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Ha Jin's seismically powerful new novel is at once an unblinking look into the bell jar of communist Chinese society and a portrait of the eternal compromises and deceptions of the human state. When the venerable professor Yang, a teacher of literature at a provincial university, has a stroke, his student Jian Wan is assigned to care for him. Since the dutiful Jian plans to marry his mentor's beautiful, icy daughter, the job requires delicacy. Just...
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English
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"From the award-winning author of Waiting: a spare, haunting tale of espionage and conflicted loyalties that spans half a century in the entwined histories of two countries--China and the United States--and two families as it explores the complicated terrain of love and honor. When Lilian Shang, born and raised in America, discovers her father's diary after the death of her parents, she is shocked by the secrets it contains. She knew that her father,...
5) A free life
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Language
English
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In the wake of the Tiananmen Square massacre, Nan Wu, who had studied in the U.S. in the mid-1980s, leaves China with his wife and son to seek the freedom of the West, embarking on a migration that takes them through the heart of contemporary America.
6) Waiting
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Lin Kong struggles to balance his life between the two women he loves and the country that is trying to rule his life.
7) A good fall
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
A collection of stories by Chinese-American writer Ha Jin in which he discusses, among other topics, the experience of Chinese immigrants in the United States as they face daily struggles and long to remain loyal to their homeland.
Author
Publisher
Zoland Books
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
Shao Bin, a worker at the Harvest Fertilizer plant in a small Chinese factory town, sets off a storm of controversy when he composes a satirical cartoon criticizing his superiors for unfair practices and sends it to the provincial newspaper.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"From the universally admired, award-winning author of Waiting and The Boat Rocker, an urgent, timely novel that follows a famous Chinese singer severed from his country as he works to find his way in the United States. After popular singer Yao Tian takes a private gig in New York at the end of a tour with his state-supported choir, expecting to pick up some extra cash for his daughter's tuition fund, the consequences of his choice spiral out of control....
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"New York, 2005. Chinese expatriate Feng Danlin is a fiercely principled reporter at a small news agency that produces a website read by Chinese all over the world. Danlin's explosive exposes have made him legendary among readers--and feared by Communist officials. But his newest assignment may be his undoing: investigating his ex-wife, Yan Haili, an unscrupulous novelist who has willingly become a pawn of the Chinese government in order to realize...