Introduction to Ba Jin
Ba Jin, formerly known as Li Yaotang, also had the courtesy name Fu Gan. A native of Chengdu, Sichuan (original from Jiaxing, Zhejiang), he was born on November 25, 1904 in an old-style large family in Chengdu.
In 1920, Qiuba Jin entered the Chengdu Foreign Languages ??School. Under the influence of the "May 4th" New Culture Movement, he read a large number of Western literature and social science works, and was especially influenced by the anarcho-communist trend of socialism. theoretical influence. In 1921, he and his friends participated in the work of social groups such as Banyue Society and Jun Society. In 1922, he began to publish poetry. He left Chengdu in April 1923 and went to Shanghai, Nanjing and other places, and completed high school at the High School Affiliated to Southeast University. In 1925, he organized the People's Society with his friends, published the semi-monthly magazine "People", and engaged in anarchist theoretical exploration and social movements.
In 1927, Ba Jin went to study in Paris, France. During this period, he actively participated in the international activities to rescue the Italian labor leaders Sacco and Vanzait who were framed by the US government. He was influenced by this and wrote the novella "Destruction". , praising the revolutionary youth who devoted themselves to their ideals. After returning to China in 1929, because the anarchist movement had failed, he pinned his despair and anger on literary fiction. The novels he has created have two major themes: first, exploring the path of young people pursuing their ideals and beliefs. Representative works include "Rebirth" and "Trilogy of Love" ("Fog", "Rain", "Electricity"), etc.; It exposes the evils of the feudal family system and insinuates the evils of the social autocratic system. Representative works include "Autumn in Spring" and "The Torrent Trilogy" ("Home", "Spring", "Autumn"), which are warm, sincere and well-written. It has a strong emotional color and has a significant social impact.
Ba Jin settled in Shanghai in the 1930s, and continued to travel to the south and north, writing a large number of prose travel notes. In the autumn of 1934, he went to Japan and wrote the novel "Gods", "Ghosts" and "Humans". His style gradually became calmer and more stable. In 1935, he returned to China to join the Cultural Life Publishing House founded by a friend and served as chief editor. He edited large-scale book series such as "Literary Series", "Translation Series", and "Cultural Life Series", and made positive contributions to the new literature in the 1930s and 1940s in terms of discovering new literary talents and recommending excellent works.
After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he traveled to Guangzhou, Guilin, Shanghai, Chongqing and other places, integrating his ideals into the private publishing business of intellectuals. In the later period of the Anti-Japanese War, his creative style changed, and he mainly described small people in real life, showing profound humanitarianism. His representative works include the novella "Open Garden", "The Fourth Ward", "Cold Night", etc. In 1946, he returned to Shanghai and settled down.
After 1949, he served as the third and fourth vice-chairman of the All-China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, vice-chairman and chairman of the Chinese Writers Association, chairman and honorary chairman of the Shanghai Branch of the Writers Association, chairman of the Shanghai Federation of Literary and Art Circles, and editor-in-chief of "Harvest" and "Shanghai Literature" , successively served as a deputy to the first, second and third National People's Congress, a member of the Standing Committee of the fifth National People's Congress, and vice chairman of the sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. He is currently the Chairman of the Chinese Writers Association and Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. He visited abroad many times and wrote a large number of prose travel notes, as well as short story collections "The Hero's Story" and "Li Dahai" that reflected the Korean War. They mainly praised the new era and heroes, and founded a partnership with the writer Jin Yi. Edited the large-scale literary journal "Harvest".
From 1958 to 1962, 14 volumes of "Ba Jin's Collected Works" were published by People's Literature Publishing House. He was persecuted during the Cultural Revolution and lost his beloved wife. In 1973, he quietly translated the memoirs of the Russian democratic revolutionary Herzen, "Past Events and Thoughts".
After the end of the "Cultural Revolution" in 1978, he reflected with a heavy heart on the path and lessons learned by intellectuals in the 20th century, and used individuals as the object of anatomy to write five volumes of "Random Thoughts" (including "Random Thoughts", "Exploration Collection", "Truth Collection", "Sickness Collection", "Untitled Collection"), summarize the historical lessons of the Cultural Revolution, explore the psychological flaws of intellectuals, and advocate the establishment of a modern Chinese literature museum and a cultural revolution museum , written seriously, sincerely and profoundly, was praised by the cultural circles as "a big book that tells the truth".
Ba Jin won the Italian "Dante International Prize" in 1982, the French "Legion d'Honneur" in 1983, the Chinese University of Hong Kong's Honorary Doctorate of Literature in 1984, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Foreign Academician in 1985. title, in 1990 he was awarded the "Medal of People's Friendship" of the former Soviet Union, in 1990 he was awarded the "Special Award for the Establishment of the Asian Culture Award" in Fukuoka, Japan, in 1993 he was awarded the "Senior Writer's Consolation Award" by the Asian Chinese Writers Literary Foundation, and in 1998 he was awarded the fourth Outstanding Contribution Award of the Shanghai Literary and Art Awards.
In his later years, Ba Jin published a collection of essays "Reflections", compiled and published "The Complete Works of Ba Jin" (16 volumes), "The Complete Works of Ba Jin's Translations" (10 volumes), etc. Due to his outstanding achievements in ideology and literature, and because of his typical exploration of the path of Chinese intellectuals in the 20th century, he has been an important subject for academic research on the path of Chinese literature and intellectuals in the 20th century since the 1980s. Since 1989 , the country has held four Bajin International Symposiums, and published more than a dozen research chronologies, biographies and theoretical monographs.
The Hong Kong Economic Journal's Shanghai News (Special Correspondent Zhao Mingyu) reporter learned yesterday that Ba Jin's daughter Li Xiaolin has clearly rejected the Shanghai Writers Association's proposal to establish the "Ba Jin Literary Award."
After Ba Jin passed away, relevant personnel of the Shanghai Writers Association put forward two suggestions in memory of Ba Jin: first, to rename the "Shanghai Literature Development Foundation" to the "Ba Jin Foundation"; second, to establish the "Ba Jin Literature Foundation". award". Zhao Changtian, vice chairman of the Shanghai Writers Association, told reporters that Ba Jin's daughter Li Xiaolin has not expressed any position on the former, but has clearly expressed opposition to the "Ba Jin Literature Award".
"Li Xiaolin said that on the one hand, Ba Lao was very low-key during his lifetime and did not like to be so public; on the other hand, Ba Jin expressed before he woke up that he believed that there were already too many domestic literary awards."
< p>In 1990, the Shanghai Literature Development Foundation was established, proposed by Ba Lao and two others, with Ba Jin as its president. At that time, Mr. Ba donated all the 5 million yuan bonus he received from the "International Famous Cultural Person Award" in Japan to the foundation. Zhao Changtian said that when Mr. Balao set up this foundation, he said that our work is not to add to the cake, but to fill in the gaps. Through some practical work, we should effectively help writers, especially writers who are living in hardship, solve some problems. Over the past 15 years, the foundation has carried out a lot of work in this direction.Zhou Limin, deputy secretary-general of the Ba Jin Literary Research Association, said that the Ba Jin Literary Research Association is also considering permanently commemorating Ba Jin in some way, but the current plan is not yet mature and cannot be disclosed to the public. They are preparing to discuss this issue with scholars at home and abroad at the "Eighth Bajin International Academic Symposium" to be held on the 25th.
The flower baskets presented by this newspaper were placed in front of the exhibition hall/Photographed by Zhao Mingyu, reporter of the Economic Times
Visiting Ba Jin’s photo exhibition on-site and surrounded by flowers Yesterday morning, Ba Jin’s photo exhibition was held quietly at the Shanghai Writers Association unfold quietly. Within a day, Shanghai citizens came to visit in an endless stream, looking back on Ba Jin's life and at the same time paying tribute to him.
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