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A Chinese intellectual working in Japan, Lu Xun is both representative of and critical of the rich centuries of Chinese literary tradition. Writing at a time when Chinese culture found itself in upheaval as the Maoist regime replaced traditional government, Lu Xun is bitingly critical of Chinese society which he represents as self-destructive ...
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Sep 28, 2018 · A hundred years ago, Lu Xun published a short story that would forever leave its mark on both Chinese fiction and Chinese history. ‘Diary of a Madman’ (Kuangren Riji), Lu Xun’s first vernacular short story to appear in print, was published in the May 1918 issue of New Youth (Xin Qingnian), a radical journal edited by some of China’s foremost progressive thinkers.
Lu Xun's short story A Madman's Diary was written in 1918 during the cultural turmoil and critical self-reflection that was to become what is known as the May 4th movement of 1919. Lu Xun, through his character "the Madman", provides a fairly blatant satire of traditional China, consistently referred to throughout the story as cannibalistic by ...
Sep 1, 1990 · Diary of a Madman, and other stories. Paperback – September 1, 1990. "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.
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In 1951 the Lu Xun Museum opened in Shanghai; it contains letters, manuscripts, photographs, and other memorabilia. English translations of Lu Xun’s works include Silent China: Selected Writings of Lu Xun (1973), Lu Hsun: Complete Poems (1988), and Diary of a Madman and Other Stories (1990). Wang Xiaoming
The most well-known is the story that gives the collection its name, "Diary of a Madman", where Lu Xun uses the madman's paranoiac fear of cannibalism as a metaphor for the way Chinese society ate up its people. Here, he works a hyperbolic vein generally similar to that used by Jonathan Swift in "A Modest Proposal".
