Pa Chin

Pa Chin:

see Ba JinBa Jin
or Pa Chin
, pseud. of Li Yaotang (also Li Feigan), 1904–2005, one of China's most acclaimed modern novelists, b. Chengdu. Born into a wealthy family, he received a broad education in China, graduating in 1925, and traveling to France in 1927–28.
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Pa Chin

(pseudonym of Li Fei-kan). Born 1904 in the city of Chengtu. Chinese writer. Born into the family of a landowner.

Pa Chin’s first novella, Destruction (1929), and its continuation New Life (1932) are devoted to the story of a young revolutionary from a wealthy family. In the novels and novellas Setting Sun (1930), Miners (1932), Dream on the Sea (1932) the author lashes out against the world of cruelty and evil. The trilogy Love (1931–33; Russian translation, 1957) is devoted to the fate of Chinese youth during the revolution. The trilogy Turbulent Stream (1933–40; Russian translation, 1956–57), which is Pa Chin’s most important work, describes the decay of a feudal family. Pa Chin took part in the anti-Japanese front (1937–45). His novel Fire (1943) depicts the participation of Shanghai youth in the resistance movement against the Japanese invaders. He translated the works of M. Gorky, A. I. Herzen, and I. S. Turgenev into Chinese.

WORKS

Pa Chin wenchi, vols. 1–9. Peking, 1958–59.
In Russian translation:
Sochineniia, vols. 1–2. Moscow, 1959.

REFERENCES

Petrov, V. “Tvorchestvo Ba Tszinia i ego roman Sem’ia,” in Ba Tszin’, Sem’ia. Moscow, 1956. (Translated from Chinese.)
Lang, O. Pa Chin and His Writings. Cambridge, 1967.

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thesis Editing and Translating Pa Chin's The Kao family, and Betty Wong's 1967 PhD dissertation Pa Chin in His Middle Period as a Novelist: An Analysis of Characters in the Torrent Trilogy and Fire.

Mao's 1978 Pa Chin, and Marie Walter Henshaw's 1977 doctoral dissertation The Influence of the Russia Populist-Anarchist Movement on the Chinese Revolution with Evidence in Pa Chin's Novel The Family.

Pa Chin and His Writings: Chinese Youth Between the Two Revolutions.

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Canonization and Ba Jin's work in Chinese and the US-American scholarship

The names of Lu Hsun, Pa Chin, and Lao She acquired some renown in the Western world.