ChinaFile Presents: ‘The Boat Rocker’: A Conversation with Novelist Ha Jin (Complete)

1,739 views · Published 21 October 2016 · 1:17:06 · Indexed 8 November 2026

Channel: Asia Society · 2016 · News & Politics

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NEW YORK, October 20, 2016 — The Chinese-American novelist Ha Jin discusses his life and work with Orville Schell, the Arthur Ross director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations, and the journalist and author Emily Parker. The conversation included discussion of Ha Jin's newest novel The Boat Rocker. (1 hr., 17 min.)

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