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He wrote that the main mistake of his generation was having "said too many empty words" in the Maoist age to please the cultural bureaucrats.
— John Gittings
What It Means
This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "He wrote that the main mistake of his generation was having "said too many empty words" in the Maoist age to please the cultural bureaucrats." in the context of "John Gittings, in "A giant of Chinese literature" in The Sydney Morning Herald (21 October 2005)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.
Source: Wikiquote: "Ba Jin" (Quotes about Ba Jin)
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About Ba Jin
Li Yaotang ๆๅฐงๆฃ (or Li Feigan; Zi: ่พ็) (November 25 1904 โ October 17 2005) was a Chinese writer and anarchist; he was most famous under his pen name of Ba Jin (ๅทด้, also written Pa Chin). He created this pseudonym in 1929 from the first syllable of Bakunin and of the last syllable of Kropotkin, the famous Russian anarchists.
About Ba Jin
Li Yaotang ๆๅฐงๆฃ (or Li Feigan; Zi: ่พ็) (November 25 1904 โ October 17 2005) was a Chinese writer and anarchist; he was most famous under his pen name of Ba Jin (ๅทด้, also written Pa Chin). He created this pseudonym in 1929 from the first syllable of Bakunin and of the last syllable of Kropotkin, the famous Russian anarchists.
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