Widely recognized as modern China's preeminent man of letters, Lu Xun (1881--1936) is revered as the voice of a nation's conscience, a writer comparable to Shakespeare and Tolstoy in stature and influence. Gloria Davies's portrait now gives readers a better sense of this influential author by situat[...]

This book is in the Cambria Sinophone World Series, headed by Victor Mair (University of Pennsylvania).Lu Xun, a founder of modern Chinese literature, lived through a pivotal moment in Chinese history. He attributed his motivation for a career in literature to his desire to cure the spirits of the C[...]

Madmen and Other Survivors: Reading Lu Xun's Fiction attempts to put the short stories of this outstanding Chinese writer -- whose work is central to understanding the May Fourth movement in China -- into a broad context of Modernism.[...]