Author and political activist. Born China as Li Yaotang. Ba Jin was his pen name. Learnt and advocated Esperanto. Spent 1927-8 in France. Returned to Shanghai. From 1983 suffered with Parkinson's Disease. Died Shanghai.
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Ba Jin
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Anarchists
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Sir Evan Spicer
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Simon Bolivar - blue plaque
W1, Duke Street, 4
English Heritage Simon Bolivar, 1783 - 1830, liberator of Latin America, lodged here in 1810.
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