Selected Prefaces and Postfaces by Lu Xun (Volumes 1 and 2)

Author: Liu Yunfeng
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Publish Date: 2004-06-01
Features: "The Chinese are a nation skilled in reconciliation"—this statement I once didn’t fully believe, because I was young at the time and lacked experience. I myself was not very willing to reconcile, and I thought others were the same. This perspective was later slightly corrected. That was when a relative of mine was sacrificed in the struggle for power between two warlords in my hometown. Although I had no good feelings toward one of the warlords, I still felt a sense of shared hostility toward the enemy out of kinship. Later, when the two warlords arrived in Shanghai and quickly reconciled, becoming quite close, I was stunned. I felt that if my relative had died only for the sake of his "political ally," he had died in vain. Later, I heard from a friend in Guangdong, Mr. A, that after the war between Guangdong and Guangxi, when the bones of the fallen lay scattered and the blood still smelled of their sacrifice, the wives of the two army leaders often...