Family, sometimes translated as The Family, is a semi-autobiographical novel by the Chinese author Ba Jin, the pen name of Li Feigan. His most famous novel, it chronicles inter-generational conflict between old ways and progressive aspirations in an upper-class family in the city of Chengdu, a prosperous but provincial city in the Sichuan basin, in the early 1920s following the New Culture Movement. The novel was wildly popular among China's youth and established the author as a leading voice of his generation; it was first serialized in 1931 to 1932 and then released in a single volume, under its current title, in 1933, having originally been titled Turbulent Stream.
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Did Ba Jin's Family always have that title?
It was first titled Turbulent Stream and was renamed when it appeared as a single volume in 1933.
No. The novel was first serialized in 1931 and 1932 and then released in a single volume in 1933. Its original title was Turbulent Stream (激流, Jīliú), and the title was changed after Ba Jin released it as a single volume.
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His most famous novel, it chronicles inter-generational conflict between old ways and progressive aspirations in an upper-class family in the city of Chengdu, a prosperous but provincial city in the fertile Sichuan basin in the early 1920s following the New Culture Movement.
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it chronicles inter-generational conflict between old ways and progressive aspirations in an upper-class family in the city of Chengdu
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Family (家, pinyin: Jiā, Wade-Giles: Chia1), sometimes translated as The Family, is a semi-autobiographical novel by Chinese author Ba Jin, the pen-name of Li Feigan (1904-2005).
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Family (家, pinyin: Jiā, Wade-Giles: Chia1), sometimes translated as The Family, is a semi-autobiographical novel by Chinese author Ba Jin, the pen-name of Li Feigan (1904-2005).
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Family (家, pinyin: Jiā, Wade-Giles: Chia1), sometimes translated as The Family, is a semi-autobiographical novel by Chinese author Ba Jin, the pen-name of Li Feigan (1904-2005).
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