Quote of the day
There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery.
Ba Jin
Born: November 25, 1904
Died: October 17, 2005 (aged 100)
Bio: Li Yaotang, courtesy name Feigan, is considered to be one of the most important and widely read Chinese writers of the 20th century.
Known for:
- The Family (1958)
- Ward Four: A Novel of Wartime China (1999)
- The Autobiography of Ba Jin
- The Family: a contemporary Chinese classic (1995)
- Nuit glacée (1946)