The pseudonym "Ba Jin" comes from a classmate named Ba Ba, whom he knew when he was studying in France, and Pjotr Aljeksjejevich Kropotkin, the author of the book that Ba Jin was translating when this classmate committed suicide. He took a word for each of these two names and became his pen name.
Ba Jin was born in a bureaucratic landlord family in Chengdu, Sichuan. My father used to be a county magistrate in Guangyuan County, Sichuan Province, and he was honest and clean. After the Revolution of 1911, he resigned and retired. 19 14 mother died. 19 17 my father died, too. I have been studying at home since I was a child. Accept the thoughts of democracy and anarchism in the May 4th Movement. At the end of Lunar New Year 1920, when his grandfather died, Ba Jin was glad that "nobody at home was in charge" of his behavior. 1920 to 1923 studied English at Chengdu International Studies University (one of the predecessors of Sichuan University), participated in the work of the progressive publication "Semimonthly Talk", participated in the organization of "Equality Society" and carried out anti-feudal propaganda activities. 1922 published new poems such as "the cry of the abused" in "Current Affairs News and Literary Xunkan".
1923 went to Shanghai, and soon went to the middle school affiliated to Nanjing Southeast University to study. 1925 after graduation in summer, he often published papers and translated them to promote anarchism. 1927 He went to France and finished his first novella Death in Paris the following year. After the publication of the monthly novel 1929, it aroused strong repercussions. /kloc-returned to China in the winter of 0/928 and lived in Shanghai. In a few years, he wrote many books. His main works are Dead Day, New Life, Satin, Germination and the famous torrent trilogy Home and Spring and Autumn. 193 1, the famous novels trilogy of love and fog are serialized in the times. Among them, Home is the author's masterpiece and one of the most outstanding works in the history of modern literature in China.
From 65438 to 0934, he served as the editorial board of Literature Quarterly in Beijing. In the autumn of the same year, I traveled to Japan. He returned to China the following year and served as the editor-in-chief of Shanghai Cultural Life Publishing House, publishing "Literature Series", "Cultural Life Series" and "Minority Literature Series". 1936 and Jin Yi founded Moon Hee Monthly. In the same year, he and Lu Xun jointly published the Declaration of China Writers and Artists and the Declaration of Unity and Freedom of Speech in the Literary and Art Circles.
During his stay in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, he traveled to Shanghai, Guangzhou, Guilin and Chongqing. He used to be the publisher and editor-in-chief of Scream Weekly (later renamed Fiberhome), and served as the director of the All-China Anti-Enemy Association of Literary and Art Circles. 1938 and 1940 published the novels Spring and Autumn respectively, and completed the torrent trilogy. From 1940 to 1945, he wrote the trilogy of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and fire. In the late period of the Anti-Japanese War, he created novellas "Resting Garden" and "The Fourth Ward". 1946 Finish the novel Cold Night. Short stories are famous for "gods" and "ghosts". 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 China. He also translated many works. After liberation, he wrote many beautiful essays, expressing his love for the motherland and life.
1949 attended the first national literary congress and was elected as the Standing Committee of the Federation of Literary and Art Circles. 1950 served as the vice chairman of Shanghai Federation of Literary and Art Circles. He visited the Korean front twice and compiled two essays "Living among Heroes and People Defending Peace". 1960 was elected as the vice chairman of the Chinese Federation of Literary and Art Circles and the Chinese Writers Association. During the Cultural Revolution, they were brutally persecuted. 1978, the essay Random Thoughts was serialized in Hong Kong Ta Kung Pao. At his initiative, 1985 established the China Museum of Modern Literature. His works have been translated into many languages. From 1982 to 1985, he has successively won the Italian Dante International Honor Award, the French Medal of Honor, the honorary doctor of literature of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the honorary academician of the American Academy of Literature and Art, the chairman of the Chinese Writers Association and the vice chairman of the All-China Federation of Literary and Art Circles.