Ba Jin | |
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 Ba Jin in 1938 | |
| Born | Li Yaotang[1] / Li Feigan[2] (1904-11-25)25 November 1904 Chengdu, Sichuan, Qing dynasty, China |
| Died | 17 October 2005(2005-10-17) (aged 100) Shanghai, People's Republic of China |
| Pen name | Ba Jin |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Notable works | Turbulent Stream: The Family, Spring, and Autumn Love Trilogy: Fog, Rain, and Lightning |
| Notable awards | 1983: Legion of Honour 1990: Fukuoka Prize (special prize) |
| Spouse |
Xiao Shan
(m. 1936; died 1972) |
| Children | Li Xiaolin Li Xiao |
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| Chinese | 巴金 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 李堯棠 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 李尧棠 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ba Jin (Chinese: 巴金; pinyin: Bā Jīn; 1904–2005) was a Chinese anarchist, translator, and writer. In addition to his impact on Chinese literature, he also wrote three original works in Esperanto,[3] and as a political activist he wrote The Family.
He was born as Li Yaotang,[1] with alternate name Li Feigan.[2] He used the pen name Ba Jin, for which he is most known. The first character of his pen name may have been taken from Ba Enbo,[4] a classmate of his who committed suicide in Paris,[5][6] or from the first syllable of the surname of Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin,[7] and the last character of which is the Chinese equivalent of the last syllable of Russian anarchist Peter Kropotkin (克鲁泡特金, Ke-lu-pao-te-jin).[8][9][10] He was also sometimes known as Li Pei Kan.[11]
Ba Jin was born in Chengdu, Sichuan.[1] In 1919, Ba read Kropotkin's An Appeal to the Young and converted to anarchism.[12]
It was partly owing to boredom that Ba Jin began to write his first novel, Miewang 灭亡 (“Destruction”).[13] In France, Ba Jin continued his anarchist activism, translating many anarchist works, including Kropotkin's Ethics, into Chinese, which was mailed back to Shanghai's anarchist magazines for publication.[14]
During the Cultural Revolution, Ba Jin was heavily persecuted as a counter-revolutionary.[1] His wife since 1944, Xiao Shan, died of cancer in 1972.[1] He asked that a Cultural Revolution Museum be set up in 1981.[15] The Shantou Cultural Revolution Museum referenced the influence of Ba Jin on its establishment through displaying a depiction of his at the entrance[16] as well as a quote of his, "Every town in China should establish a museum about the Cultural Revolution."[17]
Ba Jin's works were heavily influenced by foreign writers, including Émile Zola, Ivan Turgenev, Alexander Herzen, Anton Chekhov, and Emma Goldman.[18]
Ba Jin suffered from Parkinson's disease beginning in 1983. The illness confined him to Huadong Hospital in Shanghai from 1998.[2]
que Ba était un hommage à un camarade de classe, Ba Enbo, rencontré lors de son séjour en France en 1927 et dont il apprit......
le "Pa" n'a rien à voir avec Bakounine (prononcé en chinois Pa-ku-ning), mais s'inspire d'un certain Pa Enbo, un ami chinois de Château-Thierry qui s'était suicidé en se jetant dans une rivière.
......from the name for Peter Kropotkin (Ke-lu-pao-te-jin).
