Lu Xun

Zhou Shuren, known as Lu Xun, was born in Shaoxing in 1881 into a well-off family that his grandfather's imprisonment and then his father's death impoverished. A medical student in Sendai, he gave up after a screening in which Chinese onlookers watched, unmoved, the execution of one of their own, and resolved to heal minds rather than bodies. He entered the Ministry of Education in 1912, taught in Beijing, Xiamen and Guangzhou, moved to Shanghai in 1927, was one of the founders of the League of Left-Wing Writers in 1930, and died in that city in 1936.

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• Short storiesDiary of a Madman狂人日記Lu Xun · 1918Literature