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Ba Jin Chinese anarchist author dies at 100 Ba Jin, one of China's most revered communist-era writers who attacked the evils of the pre-revolutionary era in novels, short stories and essays, died Monday 17th October of cancer in Shanghai, the official Xinhua News Agency said. He was 100. Born Li Yaotang on Nov. 25, 1904, in the western city of Chengdu, he later changed his name to Ba Jin, taking the first syllable in Chinese of the surname of Mikhail Bakunin and the last syllable of Kropotkin, both Russian anarchists. Asteroid 8315 Bajin named after him. |
