Pa Chin
Ba Jin (Wade-Giles: Pa Chin, 巴金) was born Li Yaotang (李尧棠) in 1904, during the last years of the Manchu dynasty. Ba grew up in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan. Raised in a family of absentee landlords in a household of four generations of extended family members and dozens of servants, Ba was well-educated and greatly influenced by anarchist writings, particularly Piotr Kropotkin's famous pamphlet "An Appeal to the Young."
When Ba's parents passed, his grandfather took over as head of the...
