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Lu Xun
(1881–1936), Chinese writer. Lu Xun was the pen name of Zhou Shuren, a Chinese fiction writer, essayist, poet, translator, scholar, and patron of the arts who is widely considered to be ...
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Lu Hsün (1881-1936) was the pen name of Chou Shu-jen, a Chinese author and social critic. Best known for his pioneering short stories in the modern style and his prolific output as a polemic and ...
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The following essay was written in 1922 and published in the Beijing Morning Post in August 1923, the month Nahan (Call to Arms; here translated as Cheering from the Sidelines) was issued. Lu Hsü...
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In the following excerpt, Wang praises Lu Hsün as a stylist and satirist.
One must start from the point where Lu Hsün is invariably launched by his critics, namely, that he is a satirist. He...
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In the essay below, Weakland discusses the significance of Ah Q as a symbol of Chinese national character.
Modern Chinese fiction, which is often sharply critical of traditional Chinese patterns of li...
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In the following essay, Liu argues that Ah Q "represents the spirit of the Chinese people: a spirit that is fallen on evil days, a spirit that is paralyzed by the disease of indolence and ignor...
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The following essay was originally presented as a conference paper in 1967. Průšek discusses Lu Hsün's distinctly modern handling of plot and language in the early story ...
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The following excerpt is taken from an essay first presented at a 1981 conference marking the centennial of Lu Hsün's birth. Anderson here examines the social and ethical as well as litera...
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In this essay, which was originally written in 1981, Leys aims to refute the myth of Lu Hsün as a great Communist patriot and assert his importance as an artist and humanist.
Lu Xun always veheme...
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In this excerpt, Jiang stresses Lu Hsün's sympathy for the working and oppressed classes as a primary inspiration for his writing.
In 1920, Lu Xun published his short story "A Small...
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In the excerpt below, Lyell relates some of Lu Hsün 's short stories to events in the author's personal life. In his essay Lyell translates the titles of Lu Hsün's colle...
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Critical Essay by Lu Hsün
