Ba Jin
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.