Rate My Professor Ha Jin

Renowned for his fiction, poetry, and essays exploring Chinese history, military life, immigration, and human conditions under authoritarianism, Ha Jin has published nine novels, including Waiting (Pantheon, 1999; National Book Award and PEN/Faulkner Award), War Trash (Pantheon, 2004; PEN/Faulkner Award), The Crazed (2002), A Free Life (2007), Nanjing Requiem (2011), A Map of Betrayal (2014), The Boat Rocker (2016), and A Song Everlasting (2021). His four short story collections feature Ocean of Words (Zoland, 1996; PEN/Hemingway Award), Under the Red Flag (Georgia, 1997; Flannery O’Connor Award), The Bridegroom (2000), and A Good Fall (2009). Poetry volumes include Between Silences (Chicago, 1990), Facing Shadows (1996), Wreckage (2001), and A Distant Center (Copper Canyon, 2019; PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award). Additionally, he authored The Writer as Migrant (essays, Chicago, 2008) and The Banished Immortal: A Life of Li Bai (Pantheon, 2019). His works have been translated into over thirty languages, earning fellowships such as Guggenheim (1999) and Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest (2000–2002), and elections to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2006) and American Academy of Arts and Letters (2014), underscoring his profound impact on contemporary Literature.