As Lu Xun told his students 90 years ago: "When we look at the evolution of China we are struck by two peculiarities. One is that the old makes a comeback long after the new has appeared -- in ...

Lu Xun. Undoubtedly, in the 20th century Lu Xun (1881-1936) and Hu Shih (1891-1962) were two giants in the field of Chinese culture and public knowledge.

Lu Xun was born with the name Zhou Zhangshou to an educated, but not wealthy, family. His hometown, Shaoxing, was in a region of China known as Jiangnan. It had long been China's cultural ...

It appears that Lu Xun's popularity never dies out, though the pioneer of modern Chinese literature has been dead for 75 years. Streams of people laid flowers in front of the granite tomb of Lu ...

Lu Xun has been often been called the father of modern Chinese literature. His short stories about the misery and cruelty of ordinary life in China have been interpreted both as revolutionary ...

An essay by Lu Xun, a towering figure of modern Chinese literature, has been dropped from the latest edition of middle school textbooks, triggering an outcry among parents and intellectuals, who ...

It's hard to find a precise Western analogue for Lu Xun (1881-1936). He is China's Dickens, for his mercilessly sharp portrayals of the era he lived through; he is Joyce, a re-maker of language ...

Lu Xun (1881-1936) is regarded as China's greatest writer of the 20th century. On the 120th anniversary of his birth, two dramatic interpretations of his life will be staged in the capital this April.

Lu Xun, the author of the famous short story, is a Chinese literary icon "Our generation has no expectations," says 24-year-old Yin. The medical student, who only wanted to share her last name ...