Family Lesson Plan

Pa Chin Obituary

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/oct/18/guardianobituaries.china

This obituary provides a digestible but fairly comprehensive overview of Pa Chin's life and works.

Introduction - Ba Jin's Fiction and China's Twentieth Century

https://www.sup.org/books/extra/?id=26929&i=Excerpt%20from%20the%20Introduction.html

This excerpted introduction from Kristin Stapleton's book Fact in Fiction: 1920s China and Ba Jin's Family provides a helpful critique of the depiction of Chinese society and history in Family.

Crash Course - Communists, Nationalists, and China's Revolution

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