Family (Ba Jin novel)

Family, sometimes translated as The Family, is a semi-autobiographical novel by the Chinese author Ba Jin, the pen name of Li Feigan. His most famous novel, it chronicles inter-generational conflict between old ways and progressive aspirations in an upper-class family in the city of Chengdu, a prosperous but provincial city in the Sichuan basin, in the early 1920s following the New Culture Movement. The novel was wildly popular among China's youth and established the author as a leading voice of his generation; it was first serialized in 1931 to 1932 and then released in a single volume, under its current title, in 1933, having originally been titled Turbulent Stream.