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Winner of the 1999 National Book Award for Fiction!In Waiting, PEN/Hemingway Award-winning author Ha Jin draws on his intimate knowledge of contemporary China to create a novel of unexpected richness and feeling. This is the story of Lin Kong, a man living in two worlds, struggling with the conflicting claims of two utterly different women as he moves through the political minefields of a society designed to regulate his every move and stifle ...

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Novelist Ha Jin raises questions about language, migration, and the place of literature in a rapidly globalizing world. Consisting of three interconnected essays, The Writer as Migrant sets Ha Jin's own work and life alongside those of other literary exiles, creating a conversation across cultures and between eras. He employs the cases of Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Chinese novelist Lin Yutang to illustrate the obligation a writer feels to the ...

Through the life of a remarkable woman—based on pioneering stage director Sun Weishi (1921–1968)—this epic novel immerses us in the multifaceted history of China’s Communist Party. A powerful, insightful account from the National Book Award–winning author, who came of age during the Cultural Revolution.As a promising young actress, Sun Weishi made the critical decision to pursue her studies in Moscow—with the blessing of her influential adopti...

Ein »verbannter Unsterblicher« wurde Li Bai (701-762) schon zu Lebzeiten genannt: In der offiziellen chinesischen Literatur kaum gewürdigt, erlangten seine Gedichte, die von daoistischem Gedankengut geprägt sind und sich durch Leidenschaft und Lebenslust auszeichnen, bereits in der gesamten Tang-Dynastie über die Rezitationen von Hofunterhaltern, Tavernensängern, Soldaten und Schriftstellern großen Ruhm und landesweite Verbreitung. Noch heute ...

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From the universally admired, award-winning author of Waiting and The Boat Rocker-a timely novel that follows a famous Chinese singer severed from his country, as he works to find his way in the United States At the end of a U.S. tour with his state-supported choir, popular singer Yao Tian takes a private gig in New York to pick up some extra cash for his daughter's tuition fund, but the consequences of his choice spiral out of control. On his...

In his own time (701-762), Li Bai's brilliant poems-shaped by Daoist thought, filled with an irrepressible lust for life-were never given their proper due. Nonetheless, his lines rang out on the lips of tavern singers, soldiers, and writers throughout the Tang dynasty, and his deep desire for a higher, more perfect world gave rise to his nickname: the Banished Immortal. With the instincts of a master novelist, Ha Jin draws on a wide range of h...

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From the National Book Award-winning author of Waiting: a narratively driven, deeply human biography of the Tang dynasty poet Li Bai-also known as Li PoIn his own time (701-762), Li Bai's poems-shaped by Daoist thought and characterized by their passion, romance, and lust for life-were never given their proper due by the official literary gatekeepers. Nonetheless, his lines rang out on the lips of court entertainers, tavern singers, soldiers, ...

Best-selling novelist Ha Jin's poetry boldly confronts China's fraught political history while paying tribute to its rich culture and landscape.

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Als Reporter einer kleinen New Yorker Nachrichtenagentur schreibt Feng Danlin für eine Website, die Exilchinesen weltweit mit aktuellen Nachrichten versorgt. Bei den Lesern beliebt für seine klugen, stets prinzipientreuen Kommentare, verheißt der neueste Auftrag seines Chefs allerdings nicht Gutes für ihn: Er soll seine Exfrau ausspionieren, die als literarischer Star international groß rauskommen will und sich dafür offenbar nicht zu schade i...

New York, 2005. Chinese expatriate Feng Danlin is a fiercely principled reporter at a small news agency whose website is read by Chinese all over the world. Danlin's explosive exposés 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 her...

Ha Jin left his native China in 1985 for the USA. He is the author of three novels, Waiting ¿ winner of the 1999 National Book Award for Fiction, and the 2000 PEN/ Faulkner Award ¿ In the Pond, The Crazed, three collections of stories and three volumes of poetry. He lives near Boston and teaches at Boston University.

A Christian Science Monitor Best Book of the Year Lilian Shang, a history professor in Maryland, knew that her father, Gary, had been the most important Chinese spy ever caught in the United States. But when she discovers his diary after the death of her parents, its pages reveal the full pain and longing that his double life entailed-and point to a hidden second family that he'd left behind in China. As Lilian follows her father's trail b...

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