The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China

Author: Lu Xun
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141194189
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 534

Book Description
Lu Xun (Lu Hsun) is arguably the greatest writer of modern China, and is considered by many to be the founder of modern Chinese literature. Lu Xun's stories both indict outdated Chinese traditions and embrace China's cultural richness and individuality. This volume presents brand-new translations by Julia Lovell of all of Lu Xun's stories, including 'The Real Story of Ah-Q', 'Diary of a Madman', 'A Comedy of Ducks', 'The Divorce' and 'A Public Example', among others. With an afterword by Yiyun Li.

Ah Q Archaeology

Author: Paul B. Foster
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 073911168X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 414

Book Description
Although Lu Xun was a leading intellectual and writer in twentieth century China, and his representative character Ah Q, hero of "The True Story of Ah Q," is considered an iconic repository of progressive Chinese thinking about the national character, few works examine the major discourses in his thought and writing relative to broader historical and intellectual currents outside the context of his politicization. Ah Q Archaeology, however, concretely situates Lu Xun's critique of national character vis-a-vis metanarratives of nationalism and modernity through a close examination of his works in their historical context. Paul B. Foster uses a discursive approach to tie together Lu Xun's major theme of national character critique and its fate in China's tumultuous twentieth century. This book is an important and unique contribution to modern Chinese intellectual history and modern Chinese literature.

Selected Stories of Lu Hsun

Author: Xun Lu
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 280

Book Description
"Some of these stories, I am sure, will be read as long as the Chinese language exists."-Ha Jin

Chinese Modernism in the Era of Reforms

Author: Xudong Zhang
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822318460
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 452

Book Description
Book on Chinese cinema and literature

A Madman's Diary

Author: Lu Lu Xun
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781533571946
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 66

Book Description
This edition of Lu Xun's Chinese classic A Madman's Diary features both English and Chinese side by side for easy reference and bilingual support. The Lu Xun Bilingual Study Series includes a study guide and additional materials for each book in the series. Published in 1918 by Lu Xun, one of the greatest writers in 20th-century Chinese literature. This short story is one of the first and most influential modern works written in vernacular Chinese and would become a cornerstone of the New Culture Movement. It is the first story in Call to Arms, a collection of short stories by Lu Xun. The story was often referred to as "China's first modern short story". The diary form was inspired by Nikolai Gogol's short story "Diary of a Madman, " as was the idea of the madman who sees reality more clearly than those around him. The "madman" sees "cannibalism" both in his family and the village around him, and he then finds cannibalism in the Confucian classics which had long been credited with a humanistic concern for the mutual obligations of society, and thus for the superiority of Confucian civilization. The story was read as an ironic attack on traditional Chinese culture and a call for a New Culture. The English translation is provided courtesy of the Marxists Internet Archive.

Diary of a Madman and Other Stories

Author: Lu Xun
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824813178
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 444

Book Description
"Here at last is an accurate and enjoyable rendering of Lu Xun's fiction in an American English idiom that masterfully captures the sardonic wit, melancholy pathos, and ironic vision of China's first truly modern writer." -Michael S. Duke, University of British Columbia The inventor of the modern Chinese short story, Lu Xun is universally regarded as twentieth century China’s greatest writer. This long awaited volume presents new translations of all Lu Xun’s stories, including his first, “Remembrances of the Past,” written in classical Chinese. These new renderings faithfully convey both the brilliant style and the pungent expression for which Lu Xun is famous. Also included are a substantial introduction by the translator and sufficient annotation to make the stories fully accessible, enabling readers approaching Lu Xun for the first time to appreciate why these stories occupy a permanent place not only in Chinese literature but in world literature as well.

Reading Lu Xun Through Carl Jung

Author: Carolyn T. Brown
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781604979374
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 293

Book Description

China in War and Revolution, 1895-1949

Author: Peter Zarrow
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134219776
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 433

Book Description
Providing historical insights, essential to the understanding of contemporary China, this book explores the events that led to the rise of communism and a strong central state during the early twentieth century.

The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Literature

Author: Joseph S. M. Lau
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231138413
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 802

Book Description
An anthology of Chinese fiction, poetry, and essays written during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

When I Was Summer

Author: J. B. Howard
Publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0451480201
Category : YOUNG ADULT FICTION
Languages : en
Pages : 306

Book Description
Feeling like an outsider in her adoptive family, 16-year-old Nora Wakelin identifies three women living elsewhere in California who could be her biological mother. So she sets out to track them each down, one by one, under the pretense of a statewide tour with her rock band, Blue Miles.