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La vera storia di Ah Q e altri racconti
Lu Xun
1941
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In the course of his studies overseas, the author attended a motion picture performance and saw the decapitation of a Chinese spy. He resolved to established a school of modem literature in China to give voice to these experiences. Fifteen of the stories that Hsun published in "New Youth" were later collected and published as this volume.
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Lu Xun
Lu Xun
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Lu Xun (鲁迅) or Lu Hsün (Wade-Giles), was the pen name of Zhou Shuren (September 25, 1881 – October 19, 1936), a leading figure of modern Chinese literature. Writing in Vernacular Chinese as well as Classical Chinese, Lu Xun was a novelist, editor, translator, literary critic, essayist, and poet. In the 1930s he became the titular head of the League of Left-Wing Writers in Shanghai. For the Traditional Chinese profile: here. For the Simplified Chinese profile: 鲁迅

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