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Ba Jin (Chinese: 巴金; pinyin: Bā Jīn; 1904–2005) was a Chinese 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.

Not to be confused with Bak Jin.
Ba Jin
Ba Jin in 1938
BornLi Yaotang[1] / Li Feigan[2]
(1904-11-25)25 November 1904
Chengdu, Sichuan, Qing dynasty, China
Died17 October 2005(2005-10-17) (aged 100)
Shanghai, People's Republic of China
Pen nameBa Jin
OccupationNovelist
Notable worksTurbulent Stream: The Family, Spring, and Autumn
Love Trilogy: Fog, Rain, and Lightning
Notable awards1983: Legion of Honour
1990: Fukuoka Prize (special prize)
Spouse
Xiao Shan
​
​
(m. 1936; died 1972)​
[1]
ChildrenLi Xiaolin
Li Xiao
In this Chinese name, the family name is Li.
Ba Jin
Chinese巴金
Alternative Chinese name
Traditional Chinese李堯棠
Simplified Chinese李尧棠

Name


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] and the last character of which is the Chinese equivalent of the last syllable of Peter Kropotkin (克鲁泡特金, Ke-lu-pao-te-jin).[7][8][9] He was also sometimes known as Li Pei Kan.[10]


Biography


Ba Jin was born in Chengdu, Sichuan.[1]

It was partly owing to boredom that Ba Jin began to write his first novel, Miewang 灭亡 (“Destruction”).[11] 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.[12]

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.[13] The Shantou Cultural Revolution Museum referenced the influence of Ba Jin on its establishment through displaying a depiction of his at the entrance[14] as well as a quote of his, "Every town in China should establish a museum about the Cultural Revolution."[15]

Ba Jin's works were heavily influenced by foreign writers, including Émile Zola, Ivan Turgenev, Alexander Herzen, Anton Chekhov, and Emma Goldman.[16]

Ba Jin suffered from Parkinson's disease beginning in 1983. The illness confined him to Huadong Hospital in Shanghai from 1998.[2]


Bibliography



English translations



Ba Jin stories in collections



Works


Short story collections
Children's literature
Novels and novellas
Autobiography and memoirs
Non-fiction
Letters
Others

See also



References


  1. "Obituary: Ba Jin, Chinese novelist and anarchist". The New York Times. 17 October 2005. Archived from the original on 23 August 2021. Retrieved 23 August 2021.
  2. Gittings, John (18 October 2005). "Ba Jin (Obituary)". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 30 July 2016. Retrieved 23 August 2021.
  3. (en) Geoffrey Sutton, Concise Encyclopedia of the Original Literature of Esperanto Archived 2021-02-02 at the Wayback Machine, p. 180, Ed. Mondial, New York, ISBN 978-1-59569-090-6
  4. Most sources claims his name's first character is taken from Ba Enbo, he also admitted it. However, many reliable sources claim it comes from the Chinese transliteration of Mikhail Bakunin, he refused to admit because of communists' harsh condemnation of Bakunin, who was an open rival of Marx. See: Rapp, John A.; Youd, Daniel M. (2015-04-03). "Ba Jin as Anarchist Critic of Marxism: Guest Editors' Introduction". Contemporary Chinese Thought. 46 (2): 3–21. doi:10.1080/10971467.2015.1003017. Archived from the original on 2021-06-24. Retrieved 17 June 2021.
  5. Gandini, Jean-Jacques (1995). "Ba Jin revisité [Destruction et A la mémoire de Ba Jin traduits et présentés par Angel Pino et Isabelle Rabut]". Perspectives Chinoises (in French). 31 (1): 69–71. Archived from the original on 25 June 2021. Retrieved 17 June 2021. 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......
  6. "Pa Kin, grande figure de la littérature chinoise du XXe siècle". Le Monde (in French). 2005-10-18. Archived from the original on 2021-06-24. Retrieved 17 June 2021. 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.
  7. Rapp, John A.; Youd, Daniel M. (2015-04-03). "Ba Jin as Anarchist Critic of Marxism: Guest Editors' Introduction". Contemporary Chinese Thought. 46 (2): 3–21. doi:10.1080/10971467.2015.1003017. Archived from the original on 2021-06-24. Retrieved 17 June 2021. ......from the name for Peter Kropotkin (Ke-lu-pao-te-jin).
  8. "Ba Jin". Encyclopedia Britannica. Archived from the original on 24 June 2021. Retrieved 17 June 2021.
  9. "Obituary: Ba Jin". the Guardian. 2005-10-18. Archived from the original on 2016-07-30. Retrieved 17 June 2021.
  10. Van der Walt, Lucien; Schmidt, Michael (2009). Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism. AK Press. p. 20. ISBN 9781904859161.
  11. Jaroslav Průšek and Zbigniew Słupski, eds., Dictionary of Oriental Literatures: East Asia (Charles Tuttle, 1978): 135-136.
  12. See Angel Pino, “Ba Jin as Translator,” tr. Ian MacCabe, in Peng Hsiao-yen & Isabelle Rabut (eds.), Modern China and the West: Translation and Cultural Mediation. Leiden-Boston: Brill, “East Asian Comparative Literature and Culture” (2), 2014, 28-105.
  13. Sippel, Nana (18 May 2017). ""Mystifizierung der Kulturrevolution" (Interview with Nora Sausmikat)" (in German). de:Gerda_Henkel_Stiftung. Archived from the original on 14 August 2020. Retrieved 28 August 2021.
  14. Li, Jie (2020). Utopian Ruins: A Memorial Museum of the Mao Era. Duke University Press. p. 231. ISBN 978-147-801-018-0.
  15. Coonan, Clifford (27 June 2005). "Shining a light on Mao's dark era". The Irish Times. Archived from the original on 9 April 2022. Retrieved 23 August 2021.
  16. He described Goldman as his "spiritual mother", and dedicated The General to her. See Preface, The General, and Olga Lang, Pa Chin and His Writings: Chinese Youth Between the Wars (Harvard University Press, 1967).

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[de] Ba Jin

Ba Jin (chinesisch .mw-parser-output .Hani{font-size:110%}巴金, Pinyin Bā Jīn; * 25. November 1904 in Chengdu, Sichuan; † 17. Oktober 2005 in Shanghai) war ein chinesischer Schriftsteller, Romancier, Essayist, Publizist, Übersetzer und Anarchist.
- [en] Ba Jin

[ru] Ба Цзинь

Ба Цзинь (кит. 巴金; имя при рождении — Ли Яотан, кит. 李堯棠; взрослое имя — Ли Фэйгань, кит. 李芾甘) (25 ноября 1904, Чэнду, провинция Сычуань — 17 октября 2005, Шанхай) — китайский писатель и переводчик. В 1985—2005 годы — председатель Союза китайских писателей. Зампред ВК НПКСК 6—10 созывов.


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