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The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Ba Jin or Pa Chin , pseud. of Li Yaotang (also Li Feigan), 1904-2005, one of China's most acclaimed modern novelists, b. Chengdu. Born into a wealthy family, he received a broad education in China, graduating in 1925, and traveling to France in 1927-28. Early in life he became a committed anarchist and socialist, and in France wrote his first novel, Miewang [destruction] (1929), a tale of romance and revolution. Ba is best known for his trilogy Jiliu [torrent] (1931-40); its first volume, Jia, was translated into English as Family (1958). Enormously popular with China's young... Read more

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BA WANG BIE JI (Farewell My Concubine) Hong Kong-China, 1993 Director...novel by Lilian Lee; assistant directors: Zhang Jinzhan, Bai Yu, Jin Ping, Zhang Jinting; photography: Gu Changwei; editor: Pei Xiaonan...His Concubine (which is also the Chinese title of the film, "Ba Wang Bie Ji"): "I am so strong/I ... Read more

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Pa Chin Pa Chin (Ba Jin) was the pen name of the Chinese author...Chin available in translation. Olga Lang, Ba Jin and His Writings: Chinese Youth between...See also Old ř ich Kr á l, "Ba Jin's Novel The Family," in Jaroslav Pru š... Read more

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	Ba Jin's legacy ; ...Fengzi) in the 1950s took me to visit Ba Jin once or twice in his home in Shanghai...Now, what has all this got to do with Ba Jin? Nora is the heroine in the play "A...had read it in Chinese translation. Ba Jin's novel "The Family," written in 1931... Read more
	Ba Jin remembered for recording truth ; ...A warrior armed only with his pen, Ba Jin, who passed away in Beijing on Monday...culture is taking shape. In real life, Ba Jin himself did the same, leaving Chengdu...1966-76), which took away his wife. Ba Jin was beaten and persecuted, labelled... Read more
	Revered Chinese Novelist Ba Jin, 100 ; Ba Jin, 100, one of China's most revered Communist-era writers who attacked the evils...Nov. 25, 1904, in the western city of Chengdu, he later changed his name to Ba Jin, taking the first syllable in Chinese of the surname of Mikhail Bakunin and... Read more
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	Chinese novelist Ba Jin dies at age 100 ; BEIJING - Ba Jin, one of China's most revered communist-era...story of a disintegrating feudal household, Ba Jin also translated the Russian writers Ivan Turgenev and Pyotr Kropotkin. Ba Jin worked well into his later years writing... Read more
	Ba Jin, 100; Chinese communist-era writer of renown ; ...Record (Bergen County, NJ) 10-18-2005 Ba Jin, 100; Chinese communist-era writer of...LOCAL Edtion: All Editions BEIJING - Ba Jin, one of China's most revered communist-e...of a disintegrating feudal household, Ba Jin also translated the Russian writers... Read more
	Ba Jin's funeral held amid tears, praise ; ...read or understood the works of Ba Jin, one of the country's most acclaimed...who paid their last respects to Ba in Shanghai, Beijing and other...were told many stories about Ba. My classmates and I kept writing...say good-bye to our grandfather Ba Jin," said Li. The ceremony was ... Read more
	Acclaimed novelist Ba Jin passed away at age of 101 ; SHANGHAI: Ba Jin, one of China's most acclaimed...for all," Li Xiaotang, son of Ba and his late wife Xiao Shan...who preferred his pen name Ba Jin to his given names of Li Yaotang...1928. It was in France that Ba started his literature career... Read more

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