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The writer spent his life cultivating beauty—on the page and in the mirror—only to end it with a samurai-style suicide. Both ...

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Born into a wealthy family in Chengdu, Sichuan province, in 1904, Ba Jin — who was born as Li Yaotang — achieved literary acclaim with his debut novella Mie Wang (Destruction), which he published ...