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Selected Stories of Lu Hsun: The True Story of Ah Q, and Other Stories
Contributor(s): Yang, Gladys (Translator), Hsien-Yi, Yang (Translator), Hsun, Lu (Author)

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 ISBN: 1499144156     ISBN-13: 9781499144154
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
OUR PRICE: $11.66  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: April 2014
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Asian - Japanese
Dewey: FIC
Physical Information: 0.61" H x 7.01" W x 10" L (1.12 lbs) 292 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Japanese
- Cultural Region - Chinese
 
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Selected Stories of Lu Hsun - The True Story of Ah Q is an episodic novella written by Lu Xun, first published as a serial between December 4, 1921 and February 12, 1922. It was later placed in his first short story collection Call to Arms in 1923 and is the longest of the stories in the collection. The piece is generally held to be a masterpiece of modern Chinese literature, since it is considered the first piece of work fully to use Vernacular Chinese after the 1919 May 4th Movement in China. Lu Xun or Lu Hsun (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. Lu Xun's works exerted a substantial influence after the May Fourth Movement that began around 1916. He was highly acclaimed by the Communist regime after 1949, and Mao Zedong himself was a lifelong admirer of Lu Xun's works. Though sympathetic to communist ideas, Lu Xun never actually joined the Chinese Communist Party. Like many leaders of the May Fourth Movement, he was primarily a leftist and liberal.
 
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