A towering figure in the literary history of twentieth-century China, Lu Xun has exerted immense and continuous influence through his short stories, which remain today as powerful as they were first written. While echoes of these stories can still be heard in the fictional works from both sides of the Taiwan Strait in the eighties and nineties, "The True Story of Ah Q" has long become an intrinsic part of the Chinese vocabulary.
Like many Chinese intellectuals searching for a solution to China's problems, Lu Xun went to Japan to study medicine, a choice he later abandoned for a career in writing, which he considered to be a far more effective weapon to save China. A prolific author of pungent and "dagger-like" essays, Lu Xun is also a tireless translator of Western critical and literary works. His fictional works have been translated into more than twenty languages.
- ISBN10 1419185950
- ISBN13 9781419185953
- Publish Date 1 June 2004 (first published 31 December 1991)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 23 September 2009
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Kessinger Publishing Co
- Format Paperback
- Pages 52
- Language English