Novelist of 家 (The Family), the story of a large Chengdu family falling apart under the old order, and of the late essays 随想录, which look back on the Cultural Revolution. He led the Chinese Writers Association from 1981 until his death.
Ba Jin is a pen name. The 'Ba' comes from the first syllable of his friend Bakunin's name, and 'Jin' comes from the last character of another friend's name.
Bā Jīn de zuòpǐn duì Zhōngguó xiàndài wénxué chǎnshēng le shēnyuǎn de yǐngxiǎng.
Ba Jin's works had a profound influence on modern Chinese literature.
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His pen name joins two people: 巴 from 巴恩波, a classmate in France who killed himself, and 金 from 克鲁泡特金, the Russian anarchist Kropotkin, whose work he was translating at the time.
