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"I do not write to earn a living or to build a reputation. I write to battle enemies.
"Who are they? Every outdated traditional notion, every irrational system that stands in the way of social progress and human development, and every instance of cruelty in the face of love. These are my great enemies.
"My pen is alight and my body aflame. Until both burn down to ash, my love and my hate will remain here in the world."
- Ba Jin
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Revered Chinese Author Ba Jin Dies at 100
Elaine Kurtenbach, Associated Press
BEIJING (AP) — Ba Jin, one of China's most revered communist-era writers
who attacked the evils of the pre-revolutionary era in novels, short
stories and essays, died Monday of cancer in Shanghai, the official
Xinhua News Agency said. He was 100.
Best known for his 1931 novel "Family," the story of a disintegrating
feudal household, Ba Jin also translated the Russian writers Ivan
Turgenev and Pyotr Kropotkin.
Ba Jin worked well into his later years writing essays and compiling
anthologies of his work.
He was part of the young intelligentsia in the early 20th century that
looked to Western philosophies — Marxism, anarchism, and liberalism — for
solutions to China's backwardness and social inequality.
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