Lu Xun (1881–1936)
Author of Selected Stories
About the Author
A writer, essayist, translator, poet, and literary theorist and critic, Lu Hsun was born in the Chekiang Province of an educated family whose fortunes were in decline. He went to Japan to study Western medicine, but he dropped out of Sendai Medical College in 1906 after seeing news slides of show more Japanese soldiers decapitating Chinese in Manchuria. He made a decision to cure the "souls" of his countrymen rather than their bodies and chose literature as his medium. Lu Hsun returned to China in 1909 and watched the progress of the 1911 revolution with dismay. His spirits were raised somewhat in 1917 when the magazine New Youth raised the banner of literary revolution. He joined the ranks of the new writers with his short story "Diary of a Madman." Several more stories soon followed, the most famous of which was "The True Story of Ah Q" in the early 1920's. In 1926, after one of many periodic bouts of depression, Lu Hsun traveled for a while in the south and then settled in Shanghai, where he was greeted as a doyen on the literary scene. However, although many young writers wanted to become his disciples, he had an ambivalent attitude toward them and often became bitter or angry when he disagreed with their theories. The League of Left-Wing Writers was founded in 1930 and promptly took him as their leader. But from the beginning, relations were quite strained, and, by the time he died in 1936, he was completely alienated from these men who would later sing his praises. The extent of Lu Hsun's work and his high standards laid the foundation for modern Chinese literature, and he is still considered to be China's greatest twentieth-century writer in the People's Republic. His stories are satiric, unflinchingly realistic, disturbing, and brilliantly crafted in tone and style. In addition to this rich legacy, he also translated a number of European works of literature and theoretical studies on art and literature into Chinese, and he helped to introduce modern art to China. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Series
Works by Lu Xun
Noveloj de Lusin: plena kolekto 8 copies
Lu Xun xiao shuo ji ci hui = Lu Xun xiao shuo ji, vocabulary = Selected short stories of Lu Xun (1987) 7 copies
La falsa libertà 5 copies
Lu Hsun: Writing for the Revolution From Chinese Literature Magazine (Modern China Series, 2) (1976) 4 copies
朝花夕拾 3 copies
Tagebuch eines Verrückten: und andere Erzählungen: und andere Erzhlungen (Unionsverlag Taschenbücher) (2020) 2 copies
歷史故事新編 2 copies
Lu Classics Collection (Paperback) 2 copies
In tiefer Nacht geschrieben: Auswahl 2 copies
Cultura e società in Cina 2 copies
Lu Xün Xiao Shuo Ji Ci Hui: Vocabulary (Selected Short Stories of Lu Xün) (Mandarin Chinese Edition) (1979) 2 copies
Nouvelles choisies 2 copies
Voilà ce que je lui ai fait 2 copies
La vie et la mort injustes des femmes: Anthologie (Collection "Mille et une femmes") (French Edition) (1985) 2 copies
Dã Thảo 1 copy
药 Medicine 1 copy
伤逝 1 copy
Lu Xun classcis collection Call to arms Dawn Blossoms Plucked at Dusk (Chinese Edition) (2010) 1 copy
Pagal Ki Diary 1 copy
6 volumes of Lu Xun 1 copy
Hạt Giống/The Seed (Vietnamese/English): Từ truyện của Ông Mục Sư Phạm Xuân Tín và bà (The story of… 1 copy
Is-Sejha 1 copy
Lu Xun: Selected Works 1 copy
阿Q正傳 1 copy
CIGLIK 1 copy
唐宋傳奇記 1 copy
魯迅詩箋選集 1 copy
唐宋傳奇集 1 copy
Short Stories 1 copy
吶喊 1 copy
Professor Kao 1 copy
Benediction 1 copy
Elektitaj noveloj 1 copy
TREGIME 1 copy
Benopeta Ofero 1 copy
Повести ; Рассказы 1 copy
魯迅小說選 1 copy
The true story of Ah Q 1 copy
狂人日記: 野草 1 copy
魯迅精品集 4: 朝花夕拾 1 copy
“Upstairs in a Wineshop” 1 copy
Chinese modern literature classic picture book (Volume 1): Herbs Garden (Paperback)(Chinese Edition) (2010) 1 copy
Do Amar Kahaniyan 1 copy
鲁迅选集, 第四版, Lǔxùn zuòpǐn xuǎn 1 copy
Selected Works 1 copy
يوميات مجنون 1 copy
鲁迅选集, 第一版, Lǔxùn zuòpǐn xuǎn 1 copy
鲁迅选集, 第二版, Lǔxùn zuòpǐn xuǎn 1 copy
鲁迅选集, 第三版, Lǔxùn zuòpǐn xuǎn 1 copy
Silent China 1 copy
Lu Xun's legacy : printmaking in modern China : an exhibition of prints from the collection of The Muban Educational… (2020) 1 copy
Een kleine gebeurtenis 1 copy
Повести, рассказы 1 copy
Chinese Literature 1 copy
鲁迅经典-朝花夕拾 野草 1 copy
Nouvelles choisies 1 copy
Oeuvres choisies, Volume IV 1 copy
Oeuvres choisies, Volume III 1 copy
The Power of Weakness (LING) 1 copy
Oeuvres choisies, Volume II 1 copy
Stories and Sketches 1 copy
Vrava (Stories by Lu Xun) 1 copy
Berättelser 1 copy
Oeuvres choisies Volume I 1 copy
Dialettica della famiglia. Genesi, struttura e dinamica di un'istituzione repressiva (1974) — Contributor — 1 copy
KUNG I-CHI 1 copy
Medicine 1 copy
朝花夕拾 (Chinese Edition) 1 copy
集外集拾遗 1 copy
集外集拾遗补编 1 copy
汉文学史纲要 1 copy
从百草园到三味书屋 1 copy
阿Q正传一零八图 1 copy
阿Q正传(五幕剧 1 copy
鲁迅小说插图集 1 copy
Associated Works
Oogst der tijden : keur uit de werken van schrijvers en dichters aller volken en eeuwen (1940) — Contributor — 10 copies
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Lu Xun
- Legal name
- 周树人
- Other names
- Sin, Lou
Lu Hsun
Zhou Zhangshou
Zhou Yucai
Shùrén - Birthdate
- 1881-09-25
- Date of death
- 1936-10-19
- Burial location
- Lu Xun Park, Shanghai, China
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- China
- Birthplace
- Shaoxing, China
- Place of death
- Shanghai, China
- Places of residence
- Shaoxing, Zhejiang, China (1881)
Sendai, Miyagi, Japan (1904)
Tokyo, Japan (1906)
Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
Beijing, China
Xiamen, Fujian (show all 8)
Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
Shanghai, China (1927) - Education
- Jiangnan Naval Academy (1889 | 1890)
Jiangnan Military Academy (School of Mines and Railways)
Kobun Gakuin
Tohoku University (MD | 1904 | 1906 | dropped out) - Occupations
- teacher (Hangzhou High School)
teacher (Shaoxing No. 1 High School)
Assistant Secretary (1926 | Ministry of Education in Nanjing)
lecturer (Peking University)
lecturer (Beijing Normal University)
writer (show all 12)
poet
lecturer (1926 | Xiamen University)
lecturer (1926 | Zhongshan University)
editor (New Youth magazine)
editor (Sprouts magazine)
translator (Dead Souls) - Relationships
- Zhou Zuoren (brother)
- Organizations
- Chinese League of Left-Wing Writers (co-founder)
- Awards and honors
- Asteroid Namesake (233547 2007 JR27)
Lu Xun Literary Prize
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Reviews
Lists
Must read (1)
Hidden Classics (1)
Awards
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Statistics
- Works
- 249
- Also by
- 12
- Members
- 2,102
- Popularity
- #12,246
- Rating
- 4.0
- Reviews
- 29
- ISBNs
- 383
- Languages
- 16
- Favorited
- 7
So we have: “Hope, I thought to myself, is an intangible presence that can neither be affirmed nor denied – a path that exists only where others have already passed. January 1921" (from "The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China: The Complete Fiction of Lu Xun (Penguin Classics)" by Lu Xun, translator Julia Lovell).
Chang translates the same passage infinitely better – she comments that ‘Lu Xun’s story has one of the most famous endings in modern Chinese literature:’ – “I thought: hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said not to exist. It is just like roads across the earth. For actually the earth had no roads to begin with, but when many men pass one way, a road is made.”
Then the second last ‘old story retold’, where the tired hero sat at the foot of a tree to rest his feet!
The Lovell introduction is good, however, with a useful chronology and references. The Kindle is not the greatest – when you tap a footnote it defines the number. The section on Lu Xun in Wasserstom’s book on modern Chinese history is also helpful.… (more)