Person    | Male  Born 25/11/1904  Died 17/10/2005

Ba Jin

Author and political activist. Born China as Li Yaotang.  Ba Jin was his pen name.  Learnt and advocated Esperanto. Spent 1927-8 in France. Returned to Shanghai. From 1983 suffered with Parkinson's Disease. Died Shanghai.

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