"Every summer Lin Kong returned to Goose Village to divorce his wife, Shuyu." Like a fairy tale, Ha Jin's masterful novel of love and politics begins with a formula--and like a fairy tale, Waiting use
The questions, discussion topics, and author biography that follow are intended to enhance your group's reading of Ha Jin's debut collection of short fiction, Ocean of Words .
HAUNTED BY FINALSA teacher’s ghost, infamous for preventing students from graduating to the next grade, is haunting Harima. If he’s held back, he’ll never again be in the same class with his beloved T
SLEEPING BRUISERTough-guy Harima takes a nap backstage during the school festival. Unbeknownst to him, his bed is a prop in the stage version of “Sleeping Beauty,” and he is unwittingly about to make
In his first book of stories since The Bridegroom was published in 2000 ("Finely wrought . . . Every story here is cut like a stone."—Chicago Sun-Times), National Book Award–winning Ha Jin gives us a
DANGEROUS WATERS!The love of Harima Kenji’s life has made it clear that she will not return his feelings! Brokenhearted, Harima decides to run away and become a fisherman, sailing Japan’s high seas. O
A New York Times Notable Book One of the Best Books of the Year: Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Entertainment Weekly, Slate?In A Free Life, Ha Jin follows the Wu family — father Nan, mother Pingp
From the National Book Award-winning author of Waiting: a narratively driven, deeply human biography of the 8th century poet, Li Bai--also known as Li Po--one of the most beloved poets ever to emerge
Combining the emotional resonance of Home Fire with the ambition and innovation of Asymmetry, a lyrical and thought-provoking debut novel that explores the complex web of grief, memory, time, physics,
The Great Knowledge turns upside down the conventional view of the natural rise of the West and blockage of the Rest. Its uses the new developments in cognitive sciences and the counterfactual example
?Pluralist Universalism: An Asian Americanist Critique of U.S. and Chinese Multiculturalisms by Wen Jin is an extended comparison of U.S. and Chinese multiculturalisms during the post–Cold War era. He
The book analyses contemporary transnational migration through a group of mainland Chinese female expatriates in Britain. The author adopts a multi-sited approach by following individual migrants and
In The New Woman in Early Twentieth-century Chinese Fiction, Jin Feng discusses representations of women in May Fourth fiction, issues of gender, modernity, individualism, subjectivity, and narrative
Contributors from information and communication technology, computer science, and education sample recent developments in intelligent distance education technologies from perspectives of socially inte
