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Li Yaotang courtesy name Feigan , is considered to be one of the most important and widely-read Chinese

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writers of the 20th century. He wrote under the pen name

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of Ba Jin , Pa Chin, Li Fei-Kan, Li Pei-Kan, Pa Kin, allegedly taking his pseudonym from Russia

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n anarchists

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Bakunin

Mikhail Bakunin

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and Kropotkin

Peter Kropotkin

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. Ba Jin started composing his first works in the late 1920s.
Born in Chengdu

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, Sichuan

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' , known formerly in the West by its postal map spellings of Szechwan or Szechuan is a province in Southwest China with its capital in Chengdu...

, Li was born into a scholarly family of officials. His paternal grandfather ruled the large, five generation-tiered household with an autocratic hand, which young Li found stifling, not unlike that depicted in his famous novel, The Family.