Ha Jin,This is his pen name. His real name is Jin Xuefei the award-winning novelist, was born in north China, served in the People’s Liberation Army, studied English literature in college and then arrived at Brandeis University, near Boston, to study for his PhD. He made several fateful decisions shortly after arriving here in the 1980s: he would write primarily in his second language, English, and he would speak out publicly about what he viewed as the injustices and abuses of the government
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