The Complete Stories of Lu Xun
By Lu Xun
1981
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Lu Xun has been the most influential Chinese writer of this century. His short stories are satiric, vivid, pungently realistic - as satisfying in structure as they are in tone and content. Lu Xun studied medicine in Japan, but soon exchanged his physician's scalpel for a literary one, which he wielded with a sure hand and an accurate eye to probe the sickness of a still-feudal Chinese society. This collection of Lu Xun's short stories is the most complete, accurate, and authoritative yet to appear. It includes the preface to his first book, CALL TO ARMS, in which Lu Xun explains how he came to be a writer.
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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
