Ba Jin 巴金

Li Yaotang (simplified Chinese:李尧棠; traditional Chinese:李堯棠; pinyin:Lǐ Yáotáng; Wade–Giles:Li Yao-t'ang, November 25, 1904 – October 17, 2005), courtesy name Feigan (Chinese:芾甘; pinyin:Fèigān; Wade–Giles:Fei-kan), is considered to be one of the most important and widely read Chinese writers of the 20th century. He wrote under the pen name of Ba Jin (Chinese:巴金; pinyin:Bā Jīn; Wade–Giles:Pa Chin), also known as Li Pei-Kan and Pa Kin, taking his pseudonym from Russian anarchists Bakunin and Kropotkin. Ba Jin started writing his first works in the late 1920s.