Ba Jin (1904.11.25 - 2005.10.17) was originally named Li Yaotang, with the courtesy name Fu Gan and his pen names Pei Gan, Yu Yi, Wang Wenhui, etc. His ancestral home is Jiaxing, Zhejiang, and he was born into an official family in Chengdu, Sichuan. He studied with a teacher at home since he was a child. Acceptance of democratic and anarchist trends during the May 4th Movement. From 1920 to 1923, he studied English at Chengdu Foreign Languages ??School (one of the predecessors of Sichuan University), participated in the work of the progressive publication "Half Moon", participated in the organization of "Junshe", and carried out anti-feudal propaganda activities. In 1922, he published new poems such as "The Cry of the Abused" in "Jiji Xinbao·Literary Tenth Issue".

He went to Shanghai in 1923 and soon went to study at the High School Affiliated to Southeast University in Nanjing. After graduating in the summer of 1925, he often published papers and translations to promote anarchism. He went to France in 1927 and completed his first novella "Destruction" in Paris the following year. In 1929, it was published in "Novel Monthly" and caused a strong response. He returned to China in the winter of 1928 and lived in Shanghai. Within a few years, he wrote a lot. His major works include "Dead Sun", "Rebirth", "Sand", "Sprouting" and the famous "Love Trilogy" "Fog", "Rain" and "Electricity". "Home", one of the famous novels "The Torrent Trilogy", was serialized in "The Times" in 1931. It is the author's masterpiece and one of the most outstanding works in the history of modern Chinese literature.

In 1934, he served as an editorial board member of "Literary Quarterly" in Beijing. In the autumn of the same year, he traveled east to Japan. Returning to China the following year, he served as the chief editor of Cultural Life Publishing House in Shanghai, publishing "Literature Series", "Cultural Life Series" and "Literature Series". In 1936, he and Jin Yi founded the "Wen Ji Monthly". In the same year, he and Lu Xun and others jointly published the "Declaration of Chinese Literary and Art Workers" and the "Declaration of Literary and Art Circles on Unity to Defend Insult and Freedom of Expression."

During the Anti-Japanese War, he moved to Shanghai, Guangzhou, Guilin, and Chongqing. He served as the publisher and editor-in-chief of the weekly "Scream" (later renamed "Fenghuo"), and served as a director of the All-China Association of Literary and Art Circles to Resist the Enemy. In 1938 and 1940, he published the novels "Spring" and "Autumn" respectively, completing the "Torrent Trilogy". From 1940 to 1945, he wrote the "Anti-Japanese War Trilogy" "Fire". In the late period of the Anti-Japanese War, he wrote the novellas "The Garden" and "The Fourth Ward". In 1946, he completed the novel "Cold Night". The short stories are famous for "God" and "Ghost". After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he mainly engaged in translation, editing and publishing.

In 1949, he attended the first National Congress of Literary and Art Circles and was elected as a member of the Standing Committee of the Federation of Literary and Art Circles. In 1950, he served as vice chairman of Shanghai Federation of Literary and Art Circles. He visited the Korean front twice and compiled two collections of prose correspondence, "Living among Heroes" and "People Defending Peace." In 1960, he was elected vice chairman of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and vice chairman of the Chinese Writers Association. During the "Cultural Revolution", he was brutally persecuted. Since 1978, he has serialized the essay "Random Thoughts" in Hong Kong's "Ta Kung Pao". On his initiative, the Museum of Modern Chinese Literature was established in 1985. His works have been translated into many languages. From 1982 to 1985, he successively received the Italian Dante International Honor Award, the French Legion of Honor, an honorary Doctor of Letters from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the title of Honorary Academician of the American Academy of Letters and Arts. He serves as Chairman of the Chinese Writers Association and Vice Chairman of the All-China Federation of Literary and Art Circles.