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...Jin, and why has his slender collection of published work already earned him the PEN/Faulkner prize for fiction and the Flannery O'Connor Award, plus a handful of other literary accolades? The answer hinges partly on the accident of his birth and the raw materials that fed his literary imagination. Now 41 and teaching English and creative writing at Emory University in Atlanta, Ha Jin had the good luck to be born outside the U.S. and hence be protected from the homogenizing and potentially trivializing influences that afflict so many U.S.-born aspiring authors. Beginners are advised to "write about...
...Jin spent the first 29 years of his life in Communist China, including five years of service in the army. He was a boy of 10 when the Cultural Revolution erupted in 1966, spreading fanaticism and witch hunts across the land. That is the world--and rampaging ideologues are some of the people--portrayed in the 12 stories that make up his second collection, Under the Red Flag (University of Georgia Press; 207 pages...
...Alcohol isn't accessible at Harvard." --Emily M. Jin...
...organizations are always alarmist, but they warn that based on their fragmented evidence, 2 million to 5 million people could starve to death. U.N. agencies and independent groups say 70% of this year's corn crop is lost, and half the nation's grain supply consists of corn. Jin Zhe, a shopkeeper in Yanji, a Chinese border city, visited her relatives' village in North Korea three months ago. "No one in the whole village worked," she says. "There was nothing to do, and people were too weak to work...
...Jin Lee and his colleagues at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine didn't set out to create muscle-bound lab specimens. As reported in last week's Nature, they wanted to find out how a particular protein, a growth factor called myostatin, regulates the development of tissue. So they produced a strain of mice in which the gene that codes for myostatin had been deleted, or "knocked out." The resulting mutant animals grew up normal in every way--except for their extraordinarily well-developed musculature...