Notes Occasionally in the Fog

Author: Mao Dun / Fu Guangming (Editor-in-Chief)
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Publish Date: 2005-07-01
Features: Mao Dun's prose generally exhibits the characteristics of the "Lu Xun style." Many of his essays reflect the times while also transcending it. His prose is concise, using small fragments of life to symbolize the anxieties of the era. Recordings in the Fog is an essay written by the author in 1941. At that time, the Nanjing Incident had just erupted, causing Mao Dun to be deeply frustrated. With a powerful pen, he fiercely condemned the Nationalist Party's betrayal and the brutal slaughter of their own people. In the form of a miscellaneous essay like Recordings in the Fog, he expressed his accumulated anger and, in the end, pointed out that "after the thick fog, bright sunshine will follow," symbolizing the determination and urgent anger of 400 million compatriots to defend their motherland.