Jiliu

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Ba Jin was a Chinese anarchist writer known for his novels and short stories that gained popularity in the 1930s and 1940s. He was born in 1904 and came from a wealthy family, receiving both traditional and modern education. Ba Jin became an anarchist in the mid-1920s and adopted the pen name Ba Jin, inspired by the Russian anarchist Peter Kropotkin.

His novel Jia (Family), published in 1933, was the first volume of his autobiographical trilogy, Jiliu (Torrent). The trilogy was completed in 1940 with the addition of Chun (Spring) and Qiu (Autumn). These works often critiqued the traditional family system. Ba Jin's writing later became more pessimistic, and he stopped writing fiction after the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949, though he was later rehabilitated.1