For the very first time, you can find all the Ha Jin books free online in one place, where you can read and/or download.
I curate them all in one place for your convenience, but without linking them to the third-party websites, that store these books
I just show you how to find them online, and which websites to look for these copyrighted books from Google search results pages (SERPs).
Welcome to another post from the Info Ruckus Free Books Google Search Results Page series.
Ha Jin Writing
To date (November 2021), Ha Jin has published nine novels, four collections of stories, four volumes of poetry, a collection of essays and one non-fiction (biography).
His work has been translated into more than thirty languages.
You can read and/or download Ha Jin free books all in one place.
Saboteur Short Story PDF
I have also included the short story “Saboteur” which was first published in The Antioch Review in 1996.
This story was selected for 1997 edition of “The Best American Short Stories” anthology series, and included in his short story collection “The Bridegroom”.
A Song Everlasting: A Novel
You can even find Ha Jin’s latest (2021) novel “A Song Everlasting” in the list below.
The book title “A Song Everlasting” is said to be taken from a famous Tang Dynasty poem by poet Bai Juyi (白居易).
Bai Juyi is also known by his courtesy name Letian (樂天).
This Chinese poem by Bai Juyi is titled 長恨歌, and it is commonly translated in English as “A Song Of Everlasting Regret ” or “Song Of Long Regret“.
For more of Bai Juyi poems, click here, here, here, and here.
It is about the the Tang emperor, Xuanzong, and his favorite concubine, Yang Yuhuan (楊玉環) aka Yang Guifei.
She is one of the “The Four Beauties” or “Four Great Beauties” (四大美女); who were renowned for their beauty.
Who Is Ha Jin
For the uninitiated, Ha Jin (哈金 ) is actually the pen name of the famous Chinese poet and novelist Xuefei Jin (金雪飞 ).
Ha Jin is from Liaoning Province, China.
Now he is a U. S. citizen and lives in Foxboro, Boston.
Currently, he is a professor in the creative writing program at Boston University.
When he was younger, Xuefei Jin joined the Little Red Guard (红小兵) during the Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution.
Then at the tender age of 14, Xuefei Jin served the The People’s Liberation Army.
In 1997, he attended Heilongjiang University in Harbin as an English major.
In 1981, he received a B.A. in English.
Xuefei Jin or Ha Jin then studied American literature at Shandong University, where he received an M.A. in 1984.
The following year (1985), he went to the United States to do graduate work at Brandeis University, from which he earned a Ph.D. in English in 1993.
At that time, Jin studied fiction writing at Boston University with the novelist Leslie Epstein.
He planned to complete his doctorate and return to teach at a university in China.
However, he chose to remain in the United States after the Tiananmen Square Massacre in June 1989.
In the beginning, Ha Jin wasn’t serious about writing.
In 1986, American poet, and a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Frank Bidart was impressed by one of Ha Jin’s poems, “The Dead Soldier’s Talk”.
Bidart read it over the phone to Jonathan Galassi, who was then poetry editor of The Paris Review.
Galassi immediately accepted the poem, and it was published in The Paris Review, Issue101, Winter, 1986.
This poem is about the September 1969 shipwreck accident on the Tumen/Tuman River (aka Doom river), where a young Chinese soldier was drowned saving a plaster statue of Chairman Mao.
The dead soldier was posthumously awarded with Merit Citation 2, and was buried at a mountain foot in Hunchun County, Jilin province.
In 1990, this poem is included in his first published book “Between Silences: A Voice From China” on pages 5-6.
This book of poetry is one of the nineteen Ha Jin book free online listed below.
Back in 1976, at the age of 20, Ha Jin started learning the English language by tuning in to an English learning radio broadcast for half an hour every day.
According to an article, Xuefei Jin wanted to master the English language, so that he could read the English translation of “The Condition Of The Working Class In England”.
Ha Jin is a good story-teller, who writes in simple unadorned English.
Most of his stories and novels are set in China, in the fictional Muji City during the Cultural Revolution.
For “War Trash”, he moved it to Korea, while “A Free Life” is primarily set in the United States.
With just more than ten years after Jin began writing seriously in English, his second novel “Waiting” won the US National Book Award.
This award-winning novel is based on a true story that Jin heard from his wife Lisha Bian when they were visiting her family at an army hospital in China.
In his three-decade writing career in the US, Ha Jin has won a slew of awards for his writing.
In 2000, his acclaimed novel “Waiting” was chosen as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
Similarly, in 2005, his novel “War Trash” was again nominated as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
These two great novels are available among the 19 Ha Jin free books which you can read online or download free from the big list below.
Ha Jin Writing Awards
1992: Pushcart Prize XVII for “My Best Soldier” (from Ocean Of Words)
1993: Kenyon Review Prize for Literary Excellence in Fiction
1994: Pushcart Prize XIX for “In Broad Daylight” (from Under The Red Flag)
1996: Pushcart Prize XXI for “A Man-To-Be” (from Under The Red Flag)
1996: Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction for “Under The Red Flag”
1997: Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for “Ocean Of Words”
1999: National Book Award for “Waiting”
2000: PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for “Waiting”
2001: Pushcart Prize XXVI for “An Official
Reply” (from The Bridegroom) (from Under The Red Flag)
2002: Townsend Prize For Fiction for “The Bridegroom”
2005: PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for “War Trash”
2012: Dayton Literary Peace Prize for “Nanjing Requiem” (Fiction runner-up)
2019: PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award for “A Distant Center”
The Best American Short Stories
“The Best American Short Stories” yearly anthology is a part of The Best American Series published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt since 1915.
Four of the twelve short stories from “The Bridegroom” have been selected for inclusion in four volumes of “The Best American Short Stories“.
“Saboteur” in The Best American Short Stories (1997)
“In The Kindergarten” in The Best American Short Stories (1999)
“The Bridegroom” in The Best American Short Stories (2000)
“After Cowboy Chicken Came To Town” in The Best American Short Stories (2001)
Ha Jin Misty Poetry Movement
Ha Jin’s poetry is associated with the controversial movement Ménglóng Shi Rén, or “Misty Poets“.
It was formed by a group of young poets who had experienced suffering and disillusionment during the Cultural Revolution.
Their protest poems are symbolically subtle, thematically iconoclastic and polysemous (a word or phrase has several meanings).
You can check out some of these poems in “Out Of The Howling Storm: The New Chinese Poetry“.
Ha Jin Books Free Online
These are the nineteen (19) free e-books of Ha Jin you can read and/or download free online in PDF, ePUB or MOBI format.
Ha Jin Novels
In The Pond: A Novel By Ha Jin
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Waiting By Ha Jin
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The Crazed By Ha Jin
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War Trash By Ha Jin
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A Free Life By Ha Jin
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Nanjing Requiem By Ha Jin
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A Map Of Betrayal By Ha Jin
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The Boat Rocker By Ha Jin
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A Song Everlasting By Ha JinTo download this book free online, look for it in: Z-Library.
Ocean Of Words: Stories By Ha Jin
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Under The Red Flag By Ha Jin
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The Bridegroom By Ha Jin
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A Good Fall By Ha Jin
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The Woman Back From Moscow: In Pursuit of Beauty By Ha Jin
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Ha Jin Short Story
Saboteur (first published in The Antioch Review in 1996)
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Ha Jin Poetry
Between Silences: A Voice From China By Ha Jin
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Facing Shadows By Ha Jin
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Wreckage By Ha Jin
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A Distant Center By Ha Jin
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Ha Jin Essays
The Writer As Migrant By Ha Jin
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Ha Jin Non-Fiction
The Banished Immortal: A Life Of Li Bai By Ha Jin
To get this book free online, find it in: vdoc.pub or PDFDrive. It is also found in: Z-Library.
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