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Family (Ba Jin novel)

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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. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Chinese 1
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1931 to 1933 1
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1. Family, Ba Jin (Wikipedia)
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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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