Lu Xun
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The story was written in 1919 by Lu Xun, a Chinese literary giant often compared to Dickens and Orwell.
From BBC • Jun. 10, 2023
Standing outside the door he asks whether the “two large guys” on the other side remember studying the Chinese writer Lu Xun in school.
From The Guardian • Mar. 1, 2020
Wells’s science fiction greatly impressed Lu Xun, a writer who is considered the father of modern Chinese literature, and whose translations of Wells and Verne introduced the genre to China.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 17, 2019
In one corner of a shopping mall, 17-year-old Morgan Chan sat cross-legged on the floor, reading a collection of essays by the 20th century revolutionary Chinese writer Lu Xun.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2019
“Marrow” is a mordant look at a depraved society, more exemplary of Yan’s other work — he has handily drawn comparisons to Kafka and the foundational Chinese satirist Lu Xun — than its companion novella.
From New York Times • Jan. 26, 2018
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