Jīn Xuěfēi is a contemporary Chinese-American writer using the pen name Ha Jin (哈金). Ha Jin was born in Liaoning, China in 1956. His father was a military officer, and Jin joined the People's Liberation Army in 1969 during the Cultural Revolution. In 1981 he graduated from Heilongjiang University with a Bachelor's degree in English studies, and three years later obtained his Masters in Anglo-American literature at Shandong University. Wikipedia
Ha Jin Lets It Go -- Dave Weich, Powells.com Xuefei Jin known to readers as Ha Jin, began writing in English barely twelve years ago. If he'd gone back to China, he says, he wouldn't be writing fiction or poetry - and he had every intention of... www.powells.com/authors/jin.html
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Since moving to the United States from China in 1985 for graduate studies, Ha Jin has published three volumes of poetry, three collections of short stories and four novels, and has won some of the highest literary honors. www.guernicamag.com/spotlight/258/post/
