Ba Jin’s information

Li Yaotang (1904~2005), pen name Ba Jin and courtesy name Fu Gan. Han nationality. His ancestral home is Jiaxing, Zhejiang. He was born on October 19, the 30th year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty (November 25, 1904) in Zhengtongshun Street, North Gate, Fucheng, Chengdu, Sichuan Province. A modern writer, translator and publisher, one of the most influential writers since the "May 4th" New Culture Movement, and a giant in contemporary Chinese literary circles. Died of illness in Shanghai on October 17, 2005.

The pen name "Ba Jin" comes from a classmate named Ba Enbo whom he met while studying in France, and "Peter", the author of the book Ba Jin was translating when the classmate committed suicide. "Alexevich Kropotkin". He took one word from each of the two people's names and became his pen names.

Ba Jin was born into a bureaucratic landlord family in Chengdu, Sichuan. My father once served as a county magistrate in Guangyuan County, Sichuan. He was an upright official. After the Revolution of 1911, he resigned and went into seclusion. His mother died in 1914. In 1917 his father also died. He studied at home with his teacher since he was a child. Acceptance of democratic and anarchist trends during the May 4th Movement. At the end of the lunar calendar in 1920, his grandfather passed away. Ba Jin was glad that "no one in the family could control" his actions. From 1920 to 1923, he studied English at Chengdu Foreign Languages ??School (one of the predecessors of Sichuan University), participated in the work of the progressive publication "Half Moon", participated in the organization of "Junshe", and carried out anti-feudal propaganda activities. In 1922, he published new poems such as "The Cry of the Abused" in "Jiji Xinbao Literary Tenth Period".

He went to Shanghai in 1923 and soon went to study at the High School Affiliated to Southeast University in Nanjing. After graduating in the summer of 1925, he often published papers and translations to promote anarchism. He went to France in 1927 and completed his first novella "Destruction" in Paris the following year. In 1929, it was published in "Novel Monthly" and caused a strong response. He returned to China in the winter of 1928 and lived in Shanghai. Within a few years, he wrote a lot. His major works include "Dead Sun", "Rebirth", "Sand", "Sprouting" and the famous "Torrent Trilogy" "Home", "Spring" and "Autumn", which was serialized in the "Times" in 1931. His novels "Love Trilogy", "Fog", "Rain" and "Electricity". Among them, "Home" is the author's masterpiece and one of the most outstanding works in the history of modern Chinese literature.

In 1934, he served as an editorial board member of "Literary Quarterly" in Beijing. In the autumn of the same year, he traveled east to Japan. Returning to China the following year, he served as the chief editor of Cultural Life Publishing House in Shanghai, publishing "Literature Series", "Cultural Life Series" and "Literature Series". In 1936, he and Jin Yi founded the "Wen Ji Monthly". In the same year, he and Lu Xun and others jointly published the "Declaration of Chinese Literary and Art Workers" and the "Declaration of Literary and Art Circles on Unity to Defend Insult and Freedom of Expression."

During the Anti-Japanese War, he moved to Shanghai, Guangzhou, Guilin, and Chongqing. He served as the publisher and editor-in-chief of the weekly "Scream" (later renamed "Fenghuo"), and served as a director of the All-China Association of Literary and Art Circles to Resist the Enemy. In 1938 and 1940, he published the novels "Spring" and "Autumn" respectively, completing the "Torrent Trilogy". From 1940 to 1945, he wrote the "Anti-Japanese War Trilogy" "Fire". In the late period of the Anti-Japanese War, he wrote the novellas "The Garden" and "The Fourth Ward". In 1946, he completed the novel "Cold Night". The short stories are famous for "God" and "Ghost". After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he mainly engaged in translation, editing and publishing. Ba Jin's novel creation occupies an extremely important position in the history of modern novels in my country. He also has many translations. After liberation, he wrote many beautiful prose, expressing his love for the motherland and his love for life.

In 1949, he attended the first National Congress of Literary and Art Circles and was elected as a member of the Standing Committee of the Federation of Literary and Art Circles. In 1950, he served as vice chairman of Shanghai Federation of Literary and Art Circles. He visited the Korean front twice and compiled two collections of prose correspondence, "Living among Heroes" and "People Defending Peace." In 1960, he was elected vice chairman of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and vice chairman of the Chinese Writers Association. During the "Cultural Revolution", he was brutally persecuted. Since 1978, he has serialized the essay "Random Thoughts" in Hong Kong's "Ta Kung Pao". On his initiative, the Museum of Modern Chinese Literature was established in 1985. His works have been translated into many languages.

From 1982 to 1985, he successively received the Italian Dante International Honor Award, the French Legion of Honor, an honorary Doctor of Letters from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the title of Honorary Academician of the American Academy of Letters and Arts. He serves as Chairman of the Chinese Writers Association and Vice Chairman of the All-China Federation of Literary and Art Circles.

Bibliography of works:

"Anarchism and Practical Problems" (theory, co-authored with others), 1927, Shanghai Minzhong Society

"Destruction" (novella), 1929, Kaiming Bookstore

"From Capitalism to Anarchism" (theory), 1930, Shanghai Free Bookstore

"The Dead Sun" (Chinese version) novel), 1931, Kaiming Bookstore

"Revenge" (short story collection), 1931, New China Book Company

"Fog" (one of the "Love Trilogy", in novel), 1931, New China Book Company

"The Dream of the Sea" (novella), 1932, New China Book Company

"Autumn in Spring" (novella) ), 1932, Kaiming Bookstore

"Hai Xing" (a collection of essays), also known as "Hai Xing Miscellaneous Notes", 1932, New China Book Company

"Guangming" (a collection of short stories) , 1932, New China Book Company

"Rain" (the second novella of "Love Trilogy"), 1933, Liangyou Book Company

"Sand" (novella) Novel), 1933, Kaiming Bookstore

"The Electric Chair" (short story collection), 1933, New China Bookstore

"Rag" (short story collection), 1933, Peking Xingyuntang Bookstore

"Home" (one of the "Torrent Trilogy", a novel), 1933, Kaiming Book Company

"Sprouting" (novella, also known as "Snow"), 1933, Modern

"Rebirth" (novella), 1933, Kaiming Bookstore

"Journey Essays" (collection of essays), 1934, Life Bookstore

"General" (short story collection), 1934, Life Bookstore

"Ba Jin's Autobiography" (biography), 1934, First Publishing House

"Electricity" ("Love Trilogy" "Part 3, novella), 1935, Liangyou Book Company

"Little Bits" (collection of essays), 1935, Kaiming Bookstore

"Gods, Ghosts, and Humans" (short stories Collection), 1935, Cultural Life Publishing House

"Ba Jin Short Story Collection" (Volume 1-3), 1936-1942, Kaiming Bookstore

"Repentance of Life" ( Collection of essays), 1936, The Commercial Press

"The Fall" (a collection of short stories, also known as "The Fall"), 1936, The Commercial Press

"The Trilogy of Love" (Collection of "Fog", "Rain" and "Electricity") 1936, Liangyou Book Company

"Memories" (Memoirs), 1936, Cultural Life Publishing House

"The Story of Hair" "(short story collection), 1936, Cultural Life Publishing House

"Tower of Eternal Life" (fairy tale collection), 1937, Cultural Life Publishing House

"Thunder" (short story collection) , 1937, Cultural Life Publishing House

"Brief" (collection of essays), 1937, Liangyou Book Company

"Accusation" (collection of essays), 1937, Chongqing Fenghuo Society

"Spring" (the second part of "The Torrent Trilogy", a novel), 1938, Kaiming Bookstore

"Dreams and Drunkness" (a collection of essays), 1938, Kaiming Bookstore

"Reflections" (Collected Essays), 1939, Chongqing Fenghuo Society

"Black Soil" (Collected Essays), 1939. Cultural Life Publishing House

"Autumn" (the third part of "The Torrent Trilogy", novel), 194O, Kaiming Bookstore

"Lina" (novella), 1940 , Cultural Life Publishing House

"Fire" (*** three novels), 1940-1945, Kaimingshu

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"Star" (English-Chinese, novella), 1941, Hong Kong Gear Editorial Press

"Untitled" (prose collection), 1941, Cultural Life Publishing House

"Dragon·Tiger·Dog" (collection of essays), 1941, Cultural Life Publishing House

"Resurrection Grass" (collection of short stories), 1942, Cultural Life Publishing House

"Outside the Abandoned Garden" (collection of essays), 1942, Chongqing Fenghuo Society

"Little People and Little Things" (collection of short stories), 1943, Cultural Life Publishing House

"Qiu" "Garden" (novella), 1944, Cultural Life Publishing House

"The Fourth Ward" (novella), 1946, Liangyou Book Company

"Journey Miscellanies" (prose Collection), 1946, Shanghai Manyo Bookstore

"Cold Night" (novel), 1947, Morning Light

"Remembering" (collection of essays), 1947, Kaiming Bookstore

"The Tragedy of Silent Night" (Collected Essays), 1948, Cultural Life Publishing House

"The Nazi Killing Factory—Auschwitz" (Collected Essays), 1951, Pingming Publishing House

"Festivals in Warsaw - Polish Miscellaneous Notes" (a collection of essays), 1951, Pingming Publishing House

"Selected Works of Ba Jin" (a collection of short stories, essays, etc.), 1951, Kaiming Bookstore

"Condolence Letters and Others" (Collected Essays), 1951, Pingming Publishing House

"Living Bookstore among the Heroes" (Collected Essays and Correspondence), 1953, People's Literature Publishing House

"The Story of Heroes" (collection of short stories and essays), 1953, Pingming Publishing House

"People Defending Peace" (collection of essays and correspondence), 1954, Zhongqing

"Selected Short Stories of Ba Jin" 1955, People's Literature Publishing House

"Collected Essays of Ba Jin" 1955, People's Literature Publishing House

"Talking about Qihefu" (Theory), 1955, Pingming Publishing House

"The Great Happy Day" (prose collection), 1957, Writers Publishing House

"Strong Warrior" (prose collection), 1957, Children's Publishing House Society

"Pearl and Jade Princess" (a collection of children's short stories), 1957, Children's Publishing House

"A Battle to Save Life" (reportage), 1958, China Youth Publishing House

"Collected Works of Ba Jin" (Volume 1-14), 1958-1962, People's Literature Publishing House

"Selected Works of Ba Jin" (a collection of short stories and essays), 1959, People's Literature Publishing House

"New Voices Collection" (a collection of essays and short stories), 1959, People's Literature Publishing House

"Friendship Collection" (a collection of essays), 1959, published by the writer Society

"Pig and Chicken" (short story), 1959, Writers Publishing House

"Hymns" (collection of essays), 1960, Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House

"Li Dahai" (short story collection), 1961, Writers Publishing House

"Endless Emotions" (prose collection), 1963, Baihua Literature and Art Publishing House

"By the Xianliang Bridge" (collection of essays), 1964, Writers Publishing House

"Travel to Dazhai" (prose), 1965, Shanxi People's Publishing House

"Ba Jin's Recent Works" (No. 1 , 2 episodes, collection of essays), 1978-1980, Sichuan People's Publishing House

"Dream of the Sea" (a collection of short stories and short stories), 1979, People's Literature Publishing House

"Fireworks" "Collection" (Collection of Prose), 1979, People's Literature Publishing House

"Collection of Thoughts" (Collection of Prose), 1979, Hong Kong

Hong Kong Joint Publishing Bookstore

"Selected Novels and Novels of Ba Jin" (volumes 1 and 2), 1980, Sichuan People's Publishing House

"Selected Works of Ba Jin" (volumes 1 and 2), 1980, People's Literature Publishing House

"Exploration Collection" (Volume 1 of "Random Thoughts", a collection of essays), 1981, Hong Kong Joint Publishing Bookstore

"Selected Works of Ba Jin" (a collection of essays and short stories), 1981. Hong Kong Zhaoming Publishing House

"Creative Memoirs" 1981, Hong Kong Sanlian Bookstore

"Exploration and Memories" ("Ba Jin's Recent Works" Volume 3, Prose Collection), 1982, Sichuan People's Publishing House Society

"Selected Works of Ba Jin" (volumes 1-10, collection of novels, essays, etc.), 1982, Sichuan People's Publishing House

"Creative Memoirs" (collection of essays), 1982, People's Publishing House Literary Publishing House

"Collection of Prefaces and Postscripts" (Collection of Prose), 1982, Huacheng Publishing House

"Selected Prose of Ba Jin" (Volume 1 and 2), 1982, Zhejiang People's Publishing House

"Collection of Memories" (Collection of Essays), 1982, Ningxia People's Publishing House

"Collection of Truth" (Collection of True Words) (Collection of Essays, Volume 3 of "Random Thoughts"), 1982, Hong Kong Sanlian Bookstore

"Ba Jin on Creation" (Theory), 1983, Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House

"Selected Prose of Ba Jin" 1983, China Federation of Literary and Art Circles Publishing Company

"Literary Memoirs" "(co-authored with Lao She and others), 1983, Sichuan People's Publishing House

"Sick Collection" (the fourth volume of "Random Thoughts", a collection of essays), 1984, Hong Kong Joint Publishing House

"Childhood Memories."

(Memoirs), 1984, Sichuan Children

"Wish to Turn into Soil" (Collected Essays), 1984, Baihua Literature and Art Publishing House

"Collection of Accusations" (Collected Essays), 1985, Straits Literature and Art Publishing House

"Talking from the Heart" (Episode 4 of "Ba Jin's Recent Works", collection of essays), 1986, Sichuan Literature and Art Publishing House

"A Dream in Ten Years" (Collection of Essays) , 1986, People's Daily Publishing House

"Selected Writings of Ba Jin in the Sixty Years" (Collected Prose), 1986, Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House

"The Complete Works of Ba Jin" (Volume 1-26), 1986-1994, People's Literature Publishing House

"Untitled Collection" (Volume 5 of "Random Thoughts", a collection of essays), 1986, Hong Kong Joint Publishing House

"Ba Jin" (short stories , prose collection), 1986, Hong Kong Sanlian Bookstore

"Selected Contemporary Essays·Ba Jin's Volume" 1986, Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House

"Looking for the Ideal Young Friend" (Collection of Letters) ), 1987, Children's Publishing House

"Snow Ni Collection" (Collection of Letters), 1987, Sanlian Bookstore

"Ba Jin Letters·New Edition" 1987, Sichuan Literature and Art Publishing House

"Random Thoughts" (Collection of Essays), 1987, Sanlian Bookstore

"Essays of Ba Jin", 1991, Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House

"Collection of Ba Jin's Letters" , 1991, People's Literature Publishing House

"Novel from Outside the Territory", 1992, Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House

"Memories" (Memoirs), 1994, China Overseas Chinese Publishing House

"Brief", 1994, Hebei Education Press

"Rethinking" (Collected Prose), 1995, Shanghai Far East Publishing Company

"Ba Jin's Autobiography", 1995, Jiangsu Literature and Art Publishing House

"A Dream in Ten Years", 1995, People's Daily Publishing House

"Chinese Prose Collection Series·Ba Jin Volume", 2001, People's Literature Publishing House

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"Collection of Works of Chinese Foreign Award-winning Writers Publishing House·Ba Jin Volume", 2001, Yunnan People's Publishing House

Translation Collection:

"Scientific Socialism" (Theory ), written by Aris, 1927, Minzhongshe

"Bread Skip" (Theory), written by Russian Kropotkin, 1927, Shanghai Free Bookstore; also known as "Bread and Freedom", 1940, Pingming Publishing House

"Prison and Escape" (Memoirs), written by Russian Kropotkin, co-translated with Li Shizeng, 1927, Guangzhou Gexin Book Company

"Vina" (Collection of short stories and plays), written by Liao Kangfu, Poland, co-translated with Li Shizeng, 1928, Kaiming Bookstore

"Philosophy of Life: Its Origin and Development" (Parts 1 and 2, Theory), Russian Grammar Written by Rupotkin, 1928-1929, Shanghai Free Bookstore

"For the sake of knowledge and freedom" (short story collection), Russian Prilok et al., 1929, New Universe

"The Life of a Fish Seller" (biography), written by Italian Vanzait, 1929, Shanghai Free Bookstore

"Proudhon's Philosophy of Life" (theory), written by Russian Kropotkin, 1929 , Shanghai Free Bookstore

"The Night Before" (script), written by Liao Kangfu, Poland, 1930, Shanghai Qizhi Bookstore

"The Death of Dandong" (script), Soviet A· Tolstoy, 1930, Kaiming Bookstore

"Prairie Stories" (short story collection), written by Soviet Gorky, 1931, Shanghai Malaya Bookstore

"Spring in Autumn" "(Novel), written by Hungarian Yuli Baki, 1932, Kaiming Bookstore

"Passenger's Flower" (drama)

This book), written by Amecius, Italy, 1933, Kaiming Bookstore

"Autobiography" written by Kropotkin, Russia, 1933, Shanghai Xinmin Bookstore

"Prison Notes" (biography ), written by Berkman from the United States, 1935, Cultural Life Publishing House

"History of the Russian Nihil Movement" (History), written by Stepniak from Russia, 1936, Cultural Life Publishing House

"Threshold" (short story collection), Russian Turgenev et al., 1936, Cultural Life Publishing House

"The Night Is Young" (script), written by Liao Kangfu, Poland, 1937, Cultural Life Press

"Address to Youth" (Theory), written by Russian Kropotkin, 1937, published by the Press Publishing Department of San Francisco, USA

"A Family's Drama" (biography , also known as "The Drama of the Family"), written by Herzen, Russia, 1940, Cultural Life Publishing House

"Songs of the Rebels" (Collected Poems), Pu Shigeng et al., Russia, 1940, Cultural Life Publisher

"Father and Son" (novel), written by Turgenev in Russia, 1943, Cultural Life Publishing House

"The Late Blooming Rose" (short story collection) , written by Storm in Germany, 1943, Cultural Life Publishing House

"Virgin Land" (novel), written by Turgenev in Russia, 1944, Cultural Life Publishing House

"Prose" "Poems" (a collection of prose poems), written by Turgenev of Russia, 1945, Cultural Life Publishing House

"The Happy Prince" (a collection of fairy tales and prose poems), written by Oscar Wilde of the United Kingdom, 1948, Cultural Life Publishing House

"Memories of Tolstoy" (Memoirs), written by Gorky of the Soviet Union, 1950, Pingming Publishing House

"Memories of Turgenev" (Memoirs), Pavlov of Russia Written by Gorky of the Soviet Union, 1950, Pingming Publishing House

"Prairie Collection" (short story collection), written by Gorky of the Soviet Union, 1950, Pingming Publishing House

"Turgenev's short stories and short stories" Collection of Russian Turgenev (co-translated with Xiao Shan), 1959, People's Literature Publishing House

"Complete Translations of Ba Jin", 1997, People's Literature Publishing House