Ba Jin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ba Jin

Chinese novelist

Date of Birth: 25-Nov-1904

Place of Birth: Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Date of Death: 17-Oct-2005

Profession: writer, politician, translator, Esperantist, children's writer, autobiographer

Nationality: China

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Li Yaotang (25 November 1904 – 17 October 2005), better known by his pen name Ba Jin and also known as Li Pei Kan, was a Chinese author and political activist best known for his novel The Family.
He is considered to be one of the most important and widely read Chinese writers of the 20th century. Ba Jin's son Li Xiao is also a fiction writer.