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Lu Xun
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Eileen J. Cheng
  • LAST REVIEWED: 21 March 2024
  • LAST MODIFIED: 21 March 2024
  • DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780199920082-0218

  • Chou, Eva Shan. Memory, Violence, Queues: Lu Xun Interprets China. Ann Arbor, MI: Association for Asian Studies, 2012.

    Examines three key political periods and personal episodes in Lu Xun’s life—cutting off his queue, the monarchic restoration of Zhang Xun, and the execution of five young members of the League of Left-Wing writers (“the Five Martyrs”). Combines historical background with analysis of his fiction, essays, classical-style poems.

  • Davies, Gloria. Lu Xun’s Revolution: Writing at a Time of Violence. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013.

    DOI: 10.4159/harvard.9780674073944

    Scholarly biography focuses on the last decade of Lu Xun’s life in Shanghai after his leftist turn. Examines his relationships with various literary groups and in particular, his polemical essays (zawen) written in later life.

  • Denton, Kirk A. “Lu Xun Biography.” MCLC Resource Center Publication. 2002.

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    Chinese, 1881–1936
    It was Lu Xun who introduced the best-known description of the familiar essay to China when he published a translation of the Japanese scholar Kuriyagawa Hakuson’s Chule xiangya zhi ta (Out from the ivory tower) in 1925. Using Western sources, this work pictured the essay as a transcription of a good conversation around a winter fire among friends, in an atmosphere of slippered ease. Ironically, Lu Xun’s own reputation as an essayist was of the opposite kind: that of a warlike, biting, often deadly polemicist.
    Lu Xun had all the qualifications to be a good polemicist. On the personal level, he easily imagined himself slighted or traduced, and bore long grudges; he had a brilliant mind and, never having had a job which kept him busy, had devoted many years to reading Chinese history and literature, and through Japanese (he was a student in Japan from 1902, to 1909) to learning about the foreign experience, which gave him a superior stock of allusions and analog

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    Lu Xun

    Lu Xun (1881–1936), original name Zhou Shuren, is known as the most influential man of letters in modern China. He was born during the years when the Chinese had suffered countless humiliations and insults from foreign powers. Right before the 1911 Revolution, he became the standard-bearer of the new culture forces. He made contributions in many new fields, including fiction, zawen (a type of topical writing that is often satirical and combative), and prose writings. His writings are deep in thought and provided inexhaustible resources for modern Chinese culture.

    Lu Xun was born into a feudal bureaucrat family from Shaoxing, Zhejiang. His grandfather served as an official in the imperial capital (modern Beijing). However, the family fortunes had already declined during his father’s generation, and thus the young Lu Xun gained an increased awareness of the hypocrisy and callousness of the upper class. In 1898, Lu Xun, then eighteen years old, passed an examination that gained him admission to the School of Mines and Railways. Four years later, he graduated with excellent

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