Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c10.s2.t11.4

v2.c10.s2.t11.4

Ba Jin was born in Chengdu in Sichuan Province into a bureaucratic landlord family that was originally from Zhejiang Province. During the May Fourth Literary Movement, he was heavily influenced by Western concepts such as democracy. At this time he was actively involved in the publication of the progressive journal called *Crescent Moon*, and in an anti-government anarchist organisation called “Equality Society”. In 1923, Ba Jin moved to Shanghai and enrolled in Dongnan University in Nanjing to escape the oppressive control of his feudalistic family. After graduating in the summer of 1925 he published papers,