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"Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity."
- G. K. Chesterton
(1874 - 1936),
Defendant
(1901)
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| | Selected Stories of Lu Hsun
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| | by Lu Hsun
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ZIN Product Number: 10584387
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 255 pages
Publisher: University Press of the Pacific
ISBN: 0898751632
Release Date: Jan 11, 2002
| |  | | | In Brief
This collection includes: A Madman's Diary Kung I-Chi Medicine Tomorrow An Incident Storm in a Teacup My Old Home The True Story of Ah Q Village Opera The New Year's Sacrifice In the Wine Shop A Happy Family Soap The Misanthrope Regret for the Past The Divorce The Flight to the Moon The Forging of the Swords
| | | | From The Publisher
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 included in the three volumes 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 early 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.
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| | | | | | The Reader's Catalog
Considered one of the great modern Chinese writers, Lu Hsun is best known for his short stories and essays
| |  | | | | Preface to the First Collection of Short Stories, "Call to Arms" | 1 | | A Madman's Diary | 7 | | Kung I-Chi | 19 | | Medicine | 25 | | Tomorrow | 34 | | An Incident | 42 | | Storm in a Teacup | 45 | | My Old Home | 54 | | The True Story of Ah Q | 65 | | Village Opera | 113 | | The New Year's Sacrifice | 125 | | In the Wine Shop | 144 | | A Happy Family | 156 | | Soap | 164 | | The Misanthrope | 176 | | Regret for the Past | 197 | | The Divorce | 216 | | The Flight to the Moon | 226 | | Forging the Swords | 237 |
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Fiction, Fiction - General, Short Stories (single author), Social life and customs, Fiction, Translations into English, Short stories, Chinese, China
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