Ba Jin
Ba Jin was born November 25, 1904 in Chengdu, China and he died October 17 2005. He is an anarchist writer whose novels and short stories achieved widespread popularity in the 1930s and ’40s. aving been born to a wealthy gentry family, Li Yaotang received a traditional Confucian education as well as training in modern foreign languages and literatures. While in school, he developed socialist convictions and an interest in writing. He became an anarchist in the mid-1920s. After two years of study in France, he moved to Shanghai, where he wrote his first novel, Miewang (“Extinction”), which appeared with great success in 1929. He signed his work with the pen name Ba Jin, the last character of which is the Chinese equivalent of the last
Ba Jin was born November 25, 1904 in Chengdu, China and he died October 17 2005. He is an anarchist writer whose novels and short stories achieved widespread popularity in the 1930s and ’40s. aving been born to a wealthy gentry family, Li Yaotang received a traditional Confucian education as well as training in modern foreign languages and literatures. While in school, he developed socialist convictions and an interest in writing. He became an anarchist in the mid-1920s. After two years of study in France, he moved to Shanghai, where he wrote his first novel, Miewang (“Extinction”), which appeared with great success in 1929. He signed his work with the pen name Ba Jin, the last character of which is the Chinese equivalent of the last