id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-1072 Ha Jin - Wikipedia .html text/html 1719 230 70 Xuefei Jin (simplified Chinese: 金雪飞; traditional Chinese: 金雪飛; pinyin: Jīn Xuěfēi; born February 21, 1956) is a Chinese-American poet and novelist using the pen name Ha Jin (哈金). The Chinese government's forcible put-down hastened his decision to emigrate to the United States, and was the cause of his choice to write in English "to preserve the integrity of his work." He eventually obtained a Ph.D. Career[edit] Jin sets many of his stories and novels in China, in the fictional Muji City. He has won the National Book Award for Fiction[3] and the PEN/Faulkner Award for his novel, Waiting (1999). The novel War Trash (2004), set during the Korean War, won a second PEN/Faulkner Award for Jin, thus ranking him with Philip Roth, John Edgar Wideman and E. Jin was a Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fellow for Fiction at the American Academy in Berlin, Germany, in the fall of 2008. American short story writers of Chinese descent Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1072.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1072.txt