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"Diary of a Madman" is the opening story in Lu Xun's first collection, and has often been referred to as "China's first modern short story". Along with Chen Hengzhe 's "One Day", it was among the most influential modern vernacular Chinese works published after the Xinhai Revolution.
- Chinese
- April 1918
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- Republic of China, (1912–1949)
A critical rereading of Lu Xun's “Diary of a Madman,” a canonical text in modern Chinese literature, suggests a need to invoke modernism as a historicizing concept and to rethink modern Chinese literary historiography.
- Xiaobing Tang
- 1992
Published in 1918, “Diary of a Madman” is considered to be China’s first “modern” work of fiction because of its radical content (its depiction of madness and a modern subjectivity, the struggle of the individual vs society, and its iconoclastic critique of traditional society, namely
May 8, 2015 · Historical Context. May Fourth Movement (1917-1921) and New Culture Movement. A Madman's Diary. Overview: Analysis: True Story of Ah-Q (1921) Overview: Literary Style. Social Commentary. Immediate reception in China. Reception under the Communist Party. Global Reception of Lu Xun. Propoganda Art. References. Picture References. Biography.
tive truth-claiming discourse of ‘A madman’s diary’ resonates with new wave science fiction’s challenge to the fixed cultural values and ethical notions of contemporary China. Reading ‘A madman’s diary’ as science fiction requires reposition-ing Lu Xun’s early engagements with science fiction within his lifelong
Sep 28, 2018 · ‘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.
Introduction. 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 ...
