War Trash (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Ha Jin
- First Published: 2004
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, United States or Americans, Exile or expatriates, Doctors, War, Captivity, Soldiers, China or Chinese people, Prisoners of war, Korean War, United Nations, Taiwan or Taiwanese people
- Locales: China, Korea
War Trash is ostensibly the memoir of Yu Yuan, an aging veteran of the Chinese Communist army that fought in Korea against the United Nations forces. Writing near the end of the twentieth century, Yuan feels compelled to leave a record for his grandchildren to let them know the truth about his service and about the life of those Chinese unfortunately captured and detained during the conflict.
The bulk of his memoir records his life from 1951 until 1953. Yuan has been educated at China's premier military academy before the communist takeover of his country in 1948. Yuan...
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