巴金
He was born as Li Yaotang. He used the pen name Ba Jin, for which he is most known. The first character of his pen name may took from Ba Enbo, a classmate of him who commited a suicide in Paris, and the last character of which is the Chinese equivalent of the last syllables of Peter Kropotkin (克鲁泡特金, Ke-lu-pao-te-jin). He was also sometimes known as Li Pei Kan.