Ba Jin
| Li Yaotang | |
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Ba Jin in 1938
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| Native name | 李堯棠 |
| Born |
25 November 1904 Chengdu, Sichuan, Qing Empire |
| Died | 17 October 2005 (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 |
| Spouse | Xiao Shan, m. 8 May 1927, d. 13 August 1972 |
| Children | Li Xiaolin, born on 16 December 1945 Li Xiao, born on 28 July 1950 |
Li Yaotang (simplified Chinese: 李尧棠; traditional Chinese: 李堯棠; pinyin: Lǐ Yáotáng; Wade–Giles: Li Yao-t'ang, November 25, 1904 – October 17, 2005), courtesy name Feigan (Chinese: 芾甘; pinyin: Fèigān; Wade–Giles: Fei-kan), is considered to be one of the most important and widely read Chinese writers of the 20th century. He wrote under the pen name of Ba Jin (Chinese: 巴金; pinyin: Bā Jīn; Wade–Giles: Pa Chin), also known as Li Pei-Kan and Pa Kin, taking his pseudonym from Russian anarchists Bakunin and Kropotkin. Ba Jin started writing his first works in the late 1920s.
Ba Jin's son Li Xiao is also a fiction writer.
Born in Chengdu, Sichuan, Li was born into a scholarly family of officials. His paternal grandfather ruled the large, five generation-tiered household with an autocratic hand, which young Li found stifling, not unlike that depicted in his famous novel, The Family. As a child Li was taught to read and write first by his mother, and later by privately engaged house tutors. It was not until the death of this grandfather in 1917, causing a power struggle which ended with an elder uncle emerging victorious, that he was released to explore the world. As a youngster Li read widely and was deeply influenced by Piotr Kropotkin's famous pamphlet, An Appeal to the Young, which he read at age fifteen. Hugely impressed by Emma Goldman, whom he later referred to as his "spiritual mother", Li started a lifelong correspondence with her.
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