Ha Jin’s “The Bane of the Internet”

Zócalo last chatted with Ha Jin about his collection of essays, The Writer as Migrant, and his own experience as  Chinese immigrant to the U.S. His latest story collection, A Good Fall, takes up similar themes. Below, “The Bane of the Internet,” the story that starts the collection of tales about the uneasy and long process of immigrating.

My sister Yuchin and I used to write each other letters. It took more than ten days for the mail to reach Sichuan, and usually I wrote her once a month. After Yuchin …

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