Lu Xun (Lu Hsun) 魯迅 [pen name of Zhou Shuren 周樹人] 1881-1936

Lu Xun, a leading figure in the May Fourth Movement and the New Culture Movement, is probably the most influential writer, critic, translator and essayist in modern Chinese literature. Deeply distressed by the social disasters and the numbness of his fellow countrymen in the early 1900s, Lu Xun abandoned his medical studies to take up literature as a means to awaken the people, stimulate their spirit, and thus save the country. He was renowned for his sharp satires of the darkness of society such as ‘Kuangren riji’ 狂人日記 [A madman’s dairy] (1918) and ‘A Q zhengzhuan’ 阿Q正傳 [The true story of Ah Q] (1921–1922).

Works available in English:

  • A Brief History of Chinese Fiction (Yang Hsien-yi and Gladys Yang). Beijing:
       Foreign Languages Press, 1959; Westport, Conn.: Hyperion Press, 1973.
  • Ah Q and Others: Selected Stories of Lusin (Wang Chichen). New York: Books
       for Librarian Press; Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1971.
  • Call to Arms (Yang Hsien-yi and Gladys Yang). Beijing: Foreign Language
       Press, 1981.
  • Chosen Pages from Lu Hsun: The Literary Mentor of the Chinese Revolution.
       New York: Cameron Associates, 1959.
  • Dawn Blossoms Plucked at Dusk (Yang Hsien-yi and Gladys Yang). Beijing:
       Foreign Languages Press, 1976.
  • Diary of a Madman and Other Stories (William A. Lyell). Honolulu: University of
       Hawaii Press, 1990.
  • Hesitation (compiled and annotated by Jorgensen). Shanghai: Pei hsin shu chu
       kan hsing, 1948.
  • Lu Hsun: Complete Poems (David Y. Chen). Temp, Ariz.: Center for Asian
       Studies, Arizona State University, 1988.
  • Lu Xun: Selected Poems (W.J.F. Jenner). Beijing: Foreign Languages Press,
       1982.
  • Masterpieces of Modern Chinese Fiction, 1919-1949 (by Lu Xun and others).
       Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1983.
  • Old Tales Retold (Yang Hsien-yi and Gladys Yang). Beijing: Foreign Languages
       Press, 1961.
  • Poems of Lu Hsun (Huang Hsinchyu). Hong Kong: Joint Publishing Co., 1979.
  • Selected Stories of Lu Hsun (Yang Hsien-yi and Gladys Yang). Beijing: Foreign
       Languages Press, 1954; New York: Norton, 1977; San Francisco: China Book &
       Periodicals, 1994.
  • Selected Works of Lu Hsun (Yang Hsien-yi and Gladys Yang). Beijing: Foreign
       Languages Press, 1956-1960.
  • Silent China: Selected Writings of Lu Xun (Gladys Yang). London & New York:
       Oxford University Press, 1973.
  • The True Story of Ah Q (Yang Hsien-yi and Gladys Yang). Beijing: Foreign
       Language Press, 1953; Hong Kong: C & W Publishing Co., 1976; Boston: Cheng
       and Tsui Co., 1990.
  • Three Stories. Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 1970.
  • Wandering (Yang Hsien-yi and Gladys Yang). Beijing: Foreign Languages Press,
       1981.
  • Wild Grass (Feng Yusheng). Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1974.

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