(战争垃圾) WAR TRASH

War Trash, the extraordinary new novel by the National Book Award-winning author of Waiting, is Ha Jin's most ambitious work to date: a powerful, unflinehing story that opens a window on an unknown aspect of a little-known war--the experi-ences of Chinese POWs held by Americans during the Korean conflict--and paints an intimate portrait of conformity and dissent against a sweeping canvas of confrontation.
Set in 1951-53, War Trash takes the form of the memoir ofYu Yuan, a young Chinese army officer, one of a corps of "volunteers" sent by Mao to help shore up the Communist side in Korea. When Yu is captured, his command of English thrusts him into the role of unofficial interpreter in the psychological warfare that defines the POW camp.
Taking us behind the barbed wire, Ha Jin draws on true historical accounts to render the complex world the prisoners inhabit--a world of strict surveillance and complete allegiance to authority. Under the rules of war and the constraints of captivity, every human instinct is called into question, to the point that what it means to be human comes to occupy the foremost position in every prisoner's mind.
As Yu and his fellow captives struggle to create some sense of community while remaining watchful of the deceptions inherent in every exchange, only the idea of home can begin to hold out the promise that they might return to their former selves. But by the end of this unforgettable novel--an astonishing addi- tion to the literature of war that echoes classics like　Dostoevsky's Memoirs from the House of the Dead and the works of Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen--the very concept of home will be more profoundly altered than they can even begin to imagine.

作者简介：
HA JIN,left his native China in 1985 to attend Brandeis University. He is the author of the internationally best-selling novel Waiting. which won the PEN/ Faulkner Award and the National Book Award; the story collections The Bridgroom, which won the Asian American Literary Award, Under the Red Flag, which won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, and Ocean of Words, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award; the novels The Crazed and In the Pond; and three books of poet .ry. He lives in the Boston area and is a professor of English at Boston University.

PROLOGUE
1. CROSSING THE YALU
2. OUR COLLAPSE SOUTH OF THE THIRTY-EIGHTH PARALLEL
3. THREE MONTHS OF GUERRILLA LIFE
4. DR. GREENE
5. COMPOUND 72 ON KOJE ISLAND
6. FATHER WOODWORTH
7. BETRAYAL
8. A DINNER
9. BEFORE THE SCREENING
10. THE SCREENING
11. COMPOUND 602
12. STAGING A PLAY
13. AN UNUSUAL REQUEST
14. A TEST
15. MEETING WITH MR, PARK
16. MEETING WITH GENERAL BELL
17. THE ABDUCTION OF GENERAL BELL
18. AFTER THE VICTORY
19. THE APPREHENSION OF COMMISSAR PE
20. ARRIVAL AT CHEJU ISLAND
21. COMMUNICATION AND STUDY
22. THE PEI CODE
23. THE VISIT OF A YOUNG WOMAN
24. RAISING TIlE NATIONAL FLAG
25. ANOTHER SACRIFICED LIFE
26. KI LL
27. A TALK WITH CAPTAIN LARSEN
28. ENTERTAINMENT AND WORK
29. A SURPRISE
30. THE FINAL ORDER
31. AT THE REREGISTRATION
32. BACK TO CHEJU
33. CONFUSION
34. A GOOD COMPANION
35. IN THE DEMILITARIZED ZONE
36. A DIFFERENT FATE
AUTHOR'S NOTE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS