Call to Arms is a collection of revolutionary Chinese writer Lu Xun's most famous and most important short stories. Featuring "A Madman's Diary," a scathing attack of traditional Confucian civilization and "The True Story of Ah Q," a poignant satire about the hypocrisy of Chinese national character and the first work written entirely in the Chinese vernacular. Together this collection exposes a contradictory legacy of cosmopolitan independence, polemical fractiousness, and anxious patriotism that continues to resonate in Chinese intellectual life today.
- ISBN10 1476774927
- ISBN13 9781476774923
- Publish Date 6 May 2014
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Simon & Schuster
- Format eBook
- Pages 160
- Language English