Ba Jin

Ba Jin (Chinese: 巴金, also Pa Chin, penname of Li Yaotang or Li Feigan, born November 25, 1904) is a writer considered to be one of the most important and widely read amongst Chinese writers of the twentieth century. Taking his pseudonym from Russian anarchists Bakunin and Kropotkin, Ba Jin started composing his first works in the late 1920s.

Works

• Miewang ("Destruction")
• The Family (1933)
• The Love Trilogy:
• Fog (1931)
• Rain (1933)
• Lightning (1935)
• the novellas:
• Autumn in Spring
• A Dream of the Sea
• Mengya (?Germination?) -the short story collection

prose writings:

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:*Fuchou ("Vengeance")

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:*Shen, Gui, Ren ("Gods, Ghosts and Men").

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• Nahan (?Outcries?) -later renamed Fenghuo, ?Beacons? (writen with Mao Dun)
• The Torrents Trilogy:
• The Family
• Spring (1938)
• Autumn (1940).
• A Garden of Repose (1944)
• Ward No 4 (1946)
• Cold Nights (1947)
• Zaxiang Lu -translated as "Random Thoughts" (composed between 1978 and 1986).