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Ba Jin’s masterpieces of novels and essay collections

"Love Trilogy" - "Fog", "Rain" and "Electricity"

"Torrent Trilogy" - "Home", "Spring" and "Autumn"

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"The Fourth Ward" (novella)

"The Garden" (novella)

"Cold Night" (novel)

In the 1960s, he published the famous commentary "Random Thoughts".

Ba Jin, whose original name was 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.

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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. In 1990, he won the "Medal of People's Friendship" of the former Soviet Union, in 1990 he won the "Special Award for the Establishment of the Asian Culture Award" in Fukuoka, Japan, in 1993 he won the "Senior Writer's Consolation Award" from the Asian Chinese Writers Literary Foundation, and in 1998 he won the fourth

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.

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Ba Jin's resume

Ba Jin (1904.11.25 - 2005.10.17), formerly known as Li Yaotang, was originally from Jiaxing, Zhejiang, and was born in an official family in Chengdu, Sichuan. He studied with a teacher at home since he was a child. Acceptance of democratic and anarchist trends during the May 4th Movement. From 1920 to 1923, he studied English at Chengdu Foreign Languages ??School, 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 graduation 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 "Love Trilogy" "Fog", "Rain",

< p>《Electricity》. "Home", one of the famous novels "The Torrent Trilogy", was serialized in the "Times" in 1931. It is the author's masterpiece and the most outstanding novel in the history of modern Chinese literature. One of the works.

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.

He returned to China the following year and served as the chief editor of Cultural Life Publishing House in Shanghai, publishing "Literature Series

", "Cultural Life Series" and "Literature Series". In 1936, he co-founded Literary Monthly with Jin Yi. In the same year, he jointly published with Lu Xun and others the "Manifesto of Chinese Literary and Art Workers

Authors" and "We in the Literary and Art Circles Unite to Defend Insults". and the Declaration on 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 "Na

Shout" (later renamed "Fenghuo"), and served as the editor-in-chief of all China National Congress.

Director of the Literary and Art Circles Anti-Enemy Association. 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 created the novella "Open 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.

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 suffered brutal persecution. Since 1978, the essay "Random Thoughts" has been serialized 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 Medal of Honor, the Honorary Doctorate of Literature from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the title of Honorary Academician of the American Academy of Literary Arts. He serves as Chairman of the Chinese Writers Association and Vice Chairman of the All-China Federation of Literary and Art Circles.