WRITER

Ba Jin

1904 - 2005

Ba Jin

Li Yaotang (simplified Chinese: 李尧棠; traditional Chinese: 李堯棠; pinyin: Lǐ Yáotáng; 25 November 1904 – 17 October 2005), better known by his pen name Ba Jin (Chinese: 巴金; pinyin: Bā Jīn) or his courtesy name Li Feigan (Chinese: 李芾甘; pinyin: Lǐ Fèigān), was a Chinese anarchist, translator, and writer. In addition to his impact on Chinese literature, he also wrote three original works in Esperanto, and as a political activist he wrote The Family. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ba Jin is the 1,366th most popular writer (up from 1,656th in 2019), the 372nd most popular biography from China (up from 493rd in 2019) and the 32nd most popular Chinese Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ba Jin ranks 1,366 out of 7,302. Before him are Garcilaso de la Vega, Li Qingzhao, Vidyapati, Qiu Jin, Alfonsina Storni, and Karl Heinrich Ulrichs. After him are Peter Abrahams, Honoré d'Urfé, Alexander Radishchev, Boris Pahor, Georg Kaiser, and Pío Baroja.

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Garcilaso de la Vega
1501 - 1536
HPI: 65.96
Rank: 1,360
Li Qingzhao
1084 - 1155
HPI: 65.96
Rank: 1,361
Vidyapati
1352 - 1448
HPI: 65.96
Rank: 1,362
Qiu Jin
1875 - 1907
HPI: 65.96
Rank: 1,363
Alfonsina Storni
1892 - 1938
HPI: 65.94
Rank: 1,364
Karl Heinrich Ulrichs
1825 - 1895
HPI: 65.94
Rank: 1,365
Ba Jin
1904 - 2005
HPI: 65.93
Rank: 1,366
Peter Abrahams
1919 - 2017
HPI: 65.92
Rank: 1,367
Honoré d'Urfé
1567 - 1625
HPI: 65.92
Rank: 1,368
Alexander Radishchev
1749 - 1802
HPI: 65.91
Rank: 1,369
Boris Pahor
1913 - 2022
HPI: 65.90
Rank: 1,370
Georg Kaiser
1878 - 1945
HPI: 65.90
Rank: 1,371
Pío Baroja
1872 - 1956
HPI: 65.89
Rank: 1,372

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Ba Jin ranks 61. Before him are Lal Bahadur Shastri, Luigi Dallapiccola, Moshé Feldenkrais, Peter Lorre, Henri Cartan, and Princess Irene, Duchess of Aosta. After him are Josef Bühler, Rudolf Arnheim, Yves Congar, Ernst-Günther Schenck, Donald O. Hebb, and Leopold Trepper. Among people deceased in 2005, Ba Jin ranks 65. Before him are Carlo Maria Giulini, Arman, Emmanuelle Arsan, Urie Bronfenbrenner, George Dantzig, and William Westmoreland. After him are Vincent Schiavelli, Barrington Moore Jr., Maurice Trintignant, John Garang, Hunter S. Thompson, and Narriman Sadek.

Others Born in 1904

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Lal Bahadur Shastri
SOCIAL ACTIVIST
1904 - 1966
HPI: 66.58
Rank: 55
Luigi Dallapiccola
COMPOSER
1904 - 1975
HPI: 66.41
Rank: 56
Moshé Feldenkrais
PHYSICIST
1904 - 1984
HPI: 66.35
Rank: 57
Peter Lorre
ACTOR
1904 - 1964
HPI: 66.30
Rank: 58
Henri Cartan
MATHEMATICIAN
1904 - 2008
HPI: 66.23
Rank: 59
Princess Irene, Duchess of Aosta
COMPANION
1904 - 1974
HPI: 66.20
Rank: 60
Ba Jin
WRITER
1904 - 2005
HPI: 65.93
Rank: 61
Josef Bühler
POLITICIAN
1904 - 1948
HPI: 65.83
Rank: 62
Rudolf Arnheim
PSYCHOLOGIST
1904 - 2007
HPI: 65.65
Rank: 63
Yves Congar
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
1904 - 1995
HPI: 65.56
Rank: 64
Ernst-Günther Schenck
PHYSICIAN
1904 - 1998
HPI: 65.45
Rank: 65
Donald O. Hebb
PSYCHOLOGIST
1904 - 1985
HPI: 65.34
Rank: 66
Leopold Trepper
SOCIAL ACTIVIST
1904 - 1982
HPI: 65.18
Rank: 67