Ha-Jin

Book Review: Ha Jin’s “Looking for Tank Man”: Memory, Erasure, and the Weight of Exile

October 21, 2025
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This is the story of powerless little people caught up in a confusing maelstrom, at the receiving end of senseless violence.

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Ha Jin: The Writer as Migrant

January 11, 2009
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By Bill Marx Novelist Ha Jin — “Only through history can history be conquered.” On my latest World Books podcast I talk to writer Ha Jin, who in 1985 left China to attend Brandeis University. Since then he has written five novels, including “Waiting” which won the National Book Award and “War Trash,” the recipient…

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