Xinhua has reported the death of the Chinese anarchist Ba Jin
after a six year battle with cancer. Ba Jin was born Li Yaotang on
1904, in Chengdu, Sichuan Province but changed his name to taking Ba
Jin which combines the names of two Russian anarchists. The first
syllable in Chinese is that of the surname of Mikhail Bakunin and the
last syllable that of Kropotkin. He translated Kropotkin's work into
Chinese.