The True Story of Ah Q Author: Lu Xun/Zhao Yannian Publisher: People's Literature Publishing House

Lu Xun - a famous Chinese writer, thinker, critic and revolutionary. Real name: Zhou Shuren (September 25, 1881 - October 20, 1936), formerly known as Zhou Zhangshou, with the pen names Yushan and Yuting (later changed to Yucai), is famous for his pen name Lu Xun.

Height 161 cm. Born in Shaoxing, Zhejiang, he was an important writer in China in the 20th century, a leader of the New Culture Movement, a supporter of the Left-wing Cultural Movement, and a pioneer of modern Chinese literature. The People's Republic of China evaluated him as a modern writer, thinker, and revolutionary. Lu Xun's works include essays, short stories, reviews, prose, and translations, which have had a profound impact on Chinese literature after the May Fourth Movement. Lu Xun (September 25, 1881-October 19, 1936) was a Chinese writer, thinker, and revolutionary. His original name was Zhou Shuren, and his courtesy name was Yucai. He was from Shaoxing, Zhejiang. He was born in a declining feudal family. In his youth, he was influenced by the theory of evolution, Nietzsche's superman philosophy, and Tolstoy's universal love. He went to Japan to study in 1902. He originally studied medicine at Sendai Medical College, and later engaged in literary and artistic work, attempting to change the national spirit. From 1905 to 1907, he participated in the activities of the revolutionaries and published papers such as "On the Power of Mara Poetry" and "On Cultural Bias". During this period, he returned to China to marry Lu Xun at his mother's behest, his wife Zhu An. In 1909, he and his brother Zhou Zuoren translated "Collection of Foreign Novels" to introduce foreign literature.

He returned to China in the same year and taught in Hangzhou and Shaoxing. After the Revolution of 1911, he served as a member and assistant of the Ministry of Education of the Nanjing Provisional Government and the Beijing Government, and also taught at Peking University, Women's Normal University and other schools. In May 1918, he used the pen name "Lu Xun" for the first time and published the first vernacular novel in the history of modern Chinese literature, "Diary of a Madman", which laid the foundation for the new literary movement. Before and after the May Fourth Movement, he participated in the work of the "New Youth" magazine and became the leader of the "May Fourth" New Culture Movement. From 1918 to 1926, he successively created and published the novel collections "Call to Arms" and "Wandering", the essay collection "Grave", the prose poetry collection "Wild Grass", the prose collection "Dawn Flowers Plucked at Dusk", the essay collection "Hot Wind", "Huagai Collection", "Huagai Collection Continued" and other collections. Among them, the novella "The True Story of Ah Q" published in December 1921 is an immortal masterpiece in the history of modern Chinese literature. In August 1926, he was wanted by the Beiyang warlord government for supporting the patriotic movement of Beijing students. He went south to Xiamen University to serve as the director of the Chinese Department. In January 1927, he went to Guangzhou, the revolutionary center at the time, and served as the director of academic affairs at Sun Yat-sen University. In October 1927, he arrived in Shanghai and began to live with his student Xu Guangping. In 1929, his son Zhou Haiying was born. From 1930, he successively participated in the Chinese Freedom Movement Alliance.

He joined the Chinese League of Left-Wing Writers and the Chinese Civil Rights Protection League to resist the Kuomintang government's dictatorship and political persecution. From 1927 to 1936, he wrote most of the works in the historical novel collection "New Stories" and a large number of essays, which were collected in the collections "That's All", "Three Leisure Collection", "Two Hearts Collection", "Southern Dialects and Northern Dialects Collection", "Fake Freedom Book", "Quasi-Fengyue Talk", "Lace Literature", "Qie Jieting Essays", "Qie Jieting Essays Second Edition", "Qie Jieting Essays Final Edition", "Collection Outside the Collection" and "Collection Outside the Collection" and other special collections.

Throughout his life, Lu Xun made tremendous contribution to China's cultural undertakings: he led and supported literary groups such as "Wenming Society" and "Chaohua Society"; he edited literary periodicals such as "National News Supplement" [Type B], "Mangyuan", "Yusi", "Benliu", "Mengya", and "Yiwen"; he cared for and cultivated young authors with enthusiasm; he vigorously translated foreign progressive literary works and introduced famous paintings and woodcuts of Lu Xun at home and abroad; he collected, studied, and sorted out a large amount of classical literature, compiled "A Brief History of Chinese Fiction" and "An Outline of the History of Han Literature", sorted out "The Collected Works of Ji Kang", and compiled "Miscellaneous Records of Ancient Books in Kuaiji County", "Ancient Novels", "Tang and Song Legends", "Notes on Old Novels", and so on.

On October 19, 1936, he died of tuberculosis in Shanghai. Tens of thousands of Shanghai residents spontaneously held a public memorial service and funeral. He was buried in Hongqiao International Cemetery. In 1956, Lu Xun's body was moved to Hongkou Park and Mao Zedong wrote an inscription for the rebuilt tomb of Lu Xun. In 1938, "The Complete Works of Lu Xun" (20 volumes) was published. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Lu Xun's works and translations have been compiled into "The Complete Works of Lu Xun" (10 volumes), "Lu Xun's Translations" (10 volumes), "Lu Xun's Diary" (2 volumes), "Lu Xun's Letters", and many ancient books edited by Lu Xun have been reprinted. In 1981, "The Complete Works of Lu Xun" (16 volumes) was published. Beijing, Shanghai, Shaoxing, Guangzhou, Xiamen and other places have successively established Lu Xun museums and memorial halls. Dozens of Lu Xun's novels, essays, poems and essays have been selected into Chinese textbooks for middle and primary schools. Novels such as "Blessings", "The True Story of Ah Q" and "Medicine" have been adapted into movies.