Ba Jin

Li Feigan (Ba Jin) was born on November 25, 1904 in Chengdu, China in the Sichuan Province. His pen name was chosen from the Chinese transliterations of the first syllable of the name Bakunin and of the last syllable of the name Kropotkin. He received education under private tutorship.From 1927-1928 he studied eighteenth century French social history in Paris and translated certain of Kropotkin's writings into Chinese. His most famous novels were written during the 1930's and 1940's, but he continued to write after Liberation, producing essays, stories, and translations. The May Fourth Movement in 1919 gave him both anarchic and democratic ideas. During the two-year study he wrote and translated several articles on anarchism. In 1927 he went to France, where he wrote his first novel "Destruction" about a depressed young anarchist. He returned to Shanghai in 1929 and became a full-time writer. During the War of Resistance against Japan, he moved from place to place, and was the council member of the All-China Federation of Writers and Artists. He suffered cruel persecution, and finally, in the decade of Deng Xiao-ping's reforms, he was elected honorary chairman of Chinese Writers' Association. His works include "Family," "Spring," "Autumn," and others.

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