The NYRB China Archive
11.23.17

The True Story of Lu Xun

Geremie R. Barmé
from New York Review of Books

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Addressing an audience at the Hong Kong YMCA in February 1927, the writer Lu Xun (the pen name of Zhou Shuren, 1881–1936) warned that despite ten years of literary revolution and the promotion of a...

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07.02.13

Rejuvenation (复兴)

Orville Schell & John Delury

If any of the makers of modern China who agonized over their country’s enfeebled state and dreamed of better times during the past century and a half could have visited Beijing’s...

The NYRB China Archive
10.23.69

Mao and the Writers

Martin Bernal
from New York Review of Books

By the 1930s the intolerable quality of life and the inefficiency, corruption, and conservatism of the Kuomintang had driven nearly every serious creative writer in China to the Left. Most turned toward some form of Marxism, which not only...