Thursday, October 20 06:30pm
Asia Society
725 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10021
Ha Jin will discuss his experience as a Chinese American novelist, writing in English (his second language), and his new book, in a conversation with Orville Schell, Arthur Ross Director of the Asia Society Center on U.S.-China Relations, author and former New York Times and Wall Street Journal staff journalist Emily Parker. He will also share his reflections on China from the vantage point of having lived in the U.S. since the 1980s.
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Ha Jin’s latest novel, The Boat Rocker, follows the story of Chinese expatriate Feng Danlin, a fiercely principled reporter at a small news agency that produces a website read by Chinese all over the world. Danlin’s explosive exposés have made him legendary among readers—and feared by Communist officials. But his newest assignment may be his undoing: investigating his ex-wife, Yan Haili, an unscrupulous novelist who has willingly become a pawn of the Chinese government in order to realize her dreams of literary stardom.
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