Background
Bachelor, Chengdu was born on November 25, 1904 in Chengdu, Sichuan Province.
Bachelor, Chengdu was born on November 25, 1904 in Chengdu, Sichuan Province.
Foreign Language School, Chengdu. In France and adopted name Ba Jin (taken from first syllable of Bakunin and the last of Kropotkin) 1926.
Writer and journalist. Writer and translator, Shanghai 1929. Visited Japan 1934; Chief.
Joined Lu Xun’s China Literary Work Society 1936.
Company-Editor (with Mao Dun) Shouting Weekly and Bonfire Weekly 1937. Vice-chairman Union of Chinese Writers 1953 (now Chairman).
Deputy to Non-Player Character 1954. Chief. Chairman China Federation Literary and Art Circles 1960.
Chief; Chairman 5th Municipal CPPCC Committee, Shanghai 1977-1983.
Chairman 7th National Committee CPPCC since 1988. Executive Council, China Welfare Institute since 1978. Vice-Chairman China Federation Literary and Art Circles since 1978.
President China Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association Centre since 1980, National Literary Foundation 1986-1989.
Honorary President Fiction Society since 1984. Honorary Chairman China Shakespeare Research Foundation since 1984.
Presidium 6th National CPPCC Committee 1983-1988. A. Associate of Applied Science 1985.
Married Xiao Shan in 1944 (died in 1972).