Pa Chin
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Carrying out this new literary policy, the People's Literature Publishing House has reissued Pa Chin's famed 1931 novel Family, a saga about the authoritarian family system in pre-Communist China.
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In a postscript to the new edition, Pa Chin, 73, has obligingly provided a dutiful apologia for the novel's political mistakes, saying: "I noticed some of the evils of the old society, but I was unable to provide the remedies."
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