... This article is published and distributed under the terms of the Oxford University Press, Standard Journals Publication Model ( https://dbpia.nl.go.kr/pages/standard-publication-reuse-rights ) Abstract Lu Xun (鲁迅) and Zhou Zuoren (周作人) stand as two of the most influential writers in modern Chinese...

... as the sine qua non of literariness, or another way of viewing the fact of poetry’s resistance to translation. Bringing reflections on translation and translatability by Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) and the Chinese modernist Lu Xun (1881–1936) into conversation with analogous conversations within Persian...

...Lu Xun, first named Zhou Zhangshou, was the eldest of three brothers to survive childhood. The Zhou family was from Shaoxing, Chekiang. Although not as prosperous as the Xu family in Canton, they lived in a large compound and drew income from rents and official salaries. After an early education...

...The decision by Lu Xun and Xu Guangping to publish their correspondence was made in 1932, when the vogue for published love-letters by literary couples was at its height. An unacknowledged reason behind the decision to publish their letters was financial need. By showing its development...

... the figure of apparitional stranger who refuses to be exorcised. Enlightenment Literature Lu Xun Popular religion Religion Science Vernacular literature Berger Peter L Foucault Michel Ghosts Heterotopias Wang David Boxer Uprising Buddhism in Europe Confucianism Daoism Duara Prasenjit Euro...

...This chapter examines the interlocking layers of literal, textual, and emotional wandering in the essays of writers belonging to the Threads of Conversation group. It looks at the salon of Zhou Zuoren, in which Lu Xun played a role, and whose contribution to the modern Chinese essay is more or less...

...The golden age of Sino-Japanese literary exchange is first described. The writers examined in this book include a number of the most celebrated authors of the era from both China and Japan. Ultimately, although this study explores the relations involving famous writers such as Lu Xun and Tanizaki...

... ahead. Parallels, thematic and formal, emerged between such writers as Ding Ling and Hayashi Fumiko and between older more established writers such as Lu Xun and Arishima Takeo. More significantly, friendly exchanges developed between such sets of writers as Yu Dafu and Satō Haruo, Zhou Zuoren...

... literature museums were devoted to Lu Xun, who was among the first writers in China to adopt the modern vernacular language into Western-influenced fictional forms. Among these are the Shanghai Lu Xun Memorial Hall, Shaoxing Lu Xun Memorial Hall, and Lu Village, a life-size re-creation of Lu Xun's fictional...

...Lu Xun was born as Zhou Zhangshou, in Shaoxing, Zhejiang province, in the eastern part of China, just below Shanghai, in 1881. In the preface to A Call to Arms (1923), the text in which he presents himself as “Lu Xun,” and in which he may be seen constructing his history...

...This chapter presents a reading of A Madman's Diary, the first, and one of the most influential of Lu Xun's short stories. It seems that two possible sources for A Madman's Diary were personal: the “feverish intensity” of the mental state of the madman “recalls Lu...

... out over money. The last of the stories, Divorce, appeared first in Fragments in November 1925; Lu Xun wrote no more after its completion. The text returns to the countryside, to the time of the Qing dynasty and to the provincialism of life in the villages, away from...

... with important Chinese literary figures such as Lu Xun and Mao Dun, and succeeded to a certain extent to integrate the Chinese Leftist Writers' League into internationalist alliances. Although Lu Xun did not know English well enough to compose articles in English, some of his essays were intentionally written...

...No other twentieth-century Chinese writer has enjoyed a more legendary afterlife in Japan than Lu Xun. Takeuchi Yoshimi’s (1910–1977) Rojin (Lu Xun, 1944), Dazai Osamu’s (1909–1948) Sekibetsu (Farewell, 1945), and Inoue Hisashi’s (1934–2010) Shanhai muun (Shanghai Moon, 1991) deliver a Lu Xun who...

... of about a century: from Lu Xun's 1908 essay “On the Power of Mara Poetry” (Moluo shi li shuo), to the practice of poetry recitation in China as it happens now, at the outset of the twenty-first century. Hong Kong Lu Xun metaphor voice YMCA authenticity Foucault Michel language multiculturalism...

...This introductory chapter describes how Lu Xun's literary encounter with the modern world involved a sustained engagement with the past. His creative writings—fragmented and sometimes bizarrely incoherent in nature—reject the framework of a totalizing narrative and resist linear plotlines. Filled...

...This chapter explores Lu Xun's fascination with death and his “refusal to mourn” through a critical reading of some of his autobiographical essays. His preface to Call to Arms (1922) can be seen as an allegory of failure—that is, the failure of literature to deal...

...This chapter discusses Lu Xun's criticism of the “Nora phenomenon” and the images of “new women” circulating in popular culture. In his view, such images, like the traditional ideals of femininity, merely reflected the desires of the men who promoted them. In an increasingly commercialized cultural...

...This chapter focuses on Lu Xun's denigration of the theme of love in modern romantic poems and tales. In his parodies, love in its modern incarnations surfaces neither as an expression of loyalty to one's ruler, nor as the revolutionary force that New Culture intellectuals have claimed...

...This chapter studies Lu Xun's affinity for the so-called “literatures of enchantment”—fables, myths, and supernatural tales. While initially invoking the magical and otherworldly, his revisions of old fables almost invariably reveal a world similar to that of his earlier vernacular stories, a world...