The Splendor of Life (A Hundred Years of Ba Jin)

Author: Chen Qiongzhi
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Publish Date: 2003-11-01
Features: I am not a literary figure, but I have been writing for over fifty years. Everyone approaches literature from different paths. Since childhood, I have loved reading novels, sometimes even neglecting sleep and food, but not for study, but for entertainment. I never dreamed that I would become a novelist. I started writing novels just to find a way. Biographies of Ba Jin have already been published in many versions. In my opinion, this book, "The Splendor of Life," is quite distinctive. For a writer like Ba Jin, who lived for a hundred years and wrote nine million words, it is not a lack of material but an abundance of it that poses a challenge to the author. The book shows the author's ingenuity in selecting and cutting material. Although the book is short, there is no omission of important material. Readers can see a complete and well-rounded image of Ba Jin in the book. The writer Ba Jin was a product of the May Fourth Movement. This intellectual enlightenment movement introduced new ideas that were in opposition to traditional Chinese concepts, inspiring him to reflect on his own life over the past ten years, the family and society he was part of.