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Ba Jin
Li Yaotang, better known by his pen name Ba Jin or his courtesy name Li Feigan, was a Chinese anarchist, translator, and writer. In addition to his impact on Chinese literature, he also wrote three original works in Esperanto, and as a political activist he wrote The Family.
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politics · Chinese anarchist writer (1904–2005) · writer · translator · Esperantist · autobiographer · children's writer · politician · also Ba Jin, Li Yaotang, Li Feigan, Pa Chin, Pa Kin, Jin
Born 25 November 1904 · Died 17 October 2005 · Q13005
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2005· 10 entries
Libcom: Ba Jin obituary, 1904-2005
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Died 2005-10-17.
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“I believe in the future a new Dante will write a new Divine Comedy.”
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“Loving truth and living honestly is my attitude to life. Be true to yourself and be true to others, thus you can be the judge of your behavior.”
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“I am a person always full of contradictions... It was hard to choose whether to devote myself to revolution as a soldier or as a writer.”
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“Only by not forgetting the past can we be the master of the future.”
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“I write just because the fire of my emotion is burning. Had I not, I would not have been able to find peace.”
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“Before my eyes are many miserable scenes, the suffering of others and myself forces my hands to move. I become a machine for writing.”
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“I have spent myself on all kinds of things … I have advanced much politically but I have written little and moreover have written it badly.”
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“Every town in China should establish a museum about the Cultural Revolution.”
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1990· 1 entry
Awarded Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize (1990).
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1966· 1 entry
“Nobody would say the cowshed was heaven and nobody would say the inhuman torture of so many victims be called a revolution of the proletariat. … A museum should be established to remind China of the follies and disasters that had fallen from 1966 to 1976. We cannot forget what had happened and history should not repeat itself.”
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1927· 1 entry
“Anarchism and the Question of Practice”
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1923· 1 entry
And then traveled to France to study in 1927
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1921· 2 entries
“Patriotism and the Road to Happiness for the Chinese”
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“How to Build a Society of Genuine Freedom and Equality”
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1919· 1 entry
Ba read Kropotkin's An Appeal to the Young and converted to anarchism
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1904· 2 entries
Li Yaotang was born in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, into a wealthy Li family
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Born 1904-11-25.
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