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9780898751635

Selected Stories of Lu Hsun

Selected Stories of Lu Hsun
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  • ISBN-13: 9780898751635
  • ISBN: 0898751632
  • Publisher: University Press of the Pacific

AUTHOR

Hsun, Lu

SUMMARY

Lu Hsun (1881-1936), chief commander of China's modern cultural revolution, was not only a great thinker and political commentator but the founder of modern Chinese literature. As early as in the May 1918 issue of the magazine New Youth, Lu Hsun published one of his best stories, A Madman's Diary. This was his "declaration of war" against China's feudal society, and the first short story in the history of modern Chinese literature. Thereafter he followed up with a succession of stories such as The True Story of Ah Q and The New Year's Sacrifice, which cut through and sharply attacked stark reality in the dark old society. These stories were later include in the three columns Call to Arms, Wandering and Old Tales Retold, and have become treasures in the Chinese people's literary heritage.In his early life Lu Hsun was a revolutionary democrat, who later matured into a communist. His earlier works were mainly stories, 18 of the more important of which, plus the preface to Call to Arms, his first short story collection, have been selected for this book. The stories show clearly his method in this period of creative writing, thoroughgoing critical realism, a method closely related to the outright anti-imperialist and anti-feudal views, which he formed in his ear days.In his preface to Call to Arms, the author tells his motive in choosing literature as a weapon of struggle. This will give readers a deeper understanding of Lu Hsun's stories.Hsun, Lu is the author of 'Selected Stories of Lu Hsun' with ISBN 9780898751635 and ISBN 0898751632.

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