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  1. "Diary of a Madman", also translated as "A Madman's Diary" (Chinese: 狂人日記; pinyin: Kuángrén Rìjì) is a short story by the Chinese writer Lu Xun, published in 1918. It was the first and one of the most influential works written in vernacular Chinese in Republican era China, and would become a cornerstone of the New Culture Movement .

    • Chinese
    • April 1918
    • .mw-parser-output .noitalic{font-style:normal}狂人日記
    • Republic of China, (1912–1949)
  2. Lu Xun. A Madman's Diary. Written: April 1918 Source:Selected Stories of Lu Hsun, Published by Foreign Languages Press, Peking, 1960, 1972 Transcribed: Original transcription from coldbacon.com HTML Markup: Mike B. for MIA, 2005 Public Domain: Marxists Internet Archive (2005). You may freely copy, distribute, display and perform this work; as ...

  3. Documents. Q&As. Discussions. A Madman's Diary | Plot Summary & Analysis. Share. See Plot Diagram. Summary. An Ill Friend. The narrator learns that one of his two good friends is sick. His two good friends are brothers. He stops by his friends' house on his journey home. The healthy brother greets him and gives him good news.

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  5. Lu Xun's "Diary of a Madman" and a Chinese Modernism consciousness" (13). A fundamental philosoph-ical problem underlying the post-Enlightenment mode of experience becomes the securing of self-reassurance for the modern subject. Challenged by a bifurcation of experience such as the public versus the private, or work versus pleasure (which

  6. 29 pages • 58 minutes read. Lu Xun. Diary of a Madman. Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1918. A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. Download PDF. Access Full Guide. Generate discussion.

  7. “The Diary of a Madman” was an overnight sensation in China largely because of its revelation of cannibalism. The diarist’s surrender makes clear Lu Xun’s deliberate warning to the...

  8. Abstract. 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.

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