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Renowned novelist Ba Jin passes away at 101
(Agencies/newsphoto)
Updated: 2005-10-18 20:37
Students walk underneath a banner of Chinese
writer Ba Jin during a visit to an exhibition of his works at the
Contemporary Literature Gallery in Beijing in this November 15, 2003 file
photo. Ba Jin, one of China's most acclaimed novelists, whose writing
career spanned warlords, Nationalists, Communists and the chaos of the
Cultural Revolution, died in Shanghai on October 17, 2005. He was 101. The
sole survivor of the first generation of writers to use the vernacular
rather than formal Chinese, he died in hospital after a career which span
more than 70 years. Ba Jin's works were translated into more than 30
foreign languages. [Reuters] |
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