First Annotated Illustrated Edition of Lu Xun Selected Works in China Commented and Annotated by Lin Xianzhi Boxed Edition

Author: Lu Xun
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Publish Date: 2005-07-01
Features: A Chinese annotated and illustrated edition of Lu Xun's Selected Works. Lin Xianzhi, born in 1948 in Yangjiang, Guangdong, is a renowned writer. He has published poetry collections such as Camels and Stars and Dreams or Sorrows, essays and collections like The Messenger of the Common People, and critical works including The Hu Feng Case: 20th-Century Chinese Political and Spiritual Events, Notes of a Night Watchman, The Autonomous Sea Chart, and Portraits of the Era and Literature. His self-selected works include Nala: Departure or Return, biographies such as The Human Lu Xun and Lu Xun's Last Ten Years, and he has edited numerous series and collections such as The 20th Century Foreign Cultural Book Library, The Datura Translation Series, The Exile Journey Translation Series, The Exile Series, and The Century Essay Series. He has also compiled over 30 works, including The Resistance of Despair, Wild Lily Flowers, and Lu Xun Archives: Man and God.
Mr. Lin Xianzhi is a celebrated writer whose literary and critical essays have had a profound influence. His works The Soul of May Fourth and Fifty Years: An Observation of Essays and Freedom were widely acclaimed. His early work The Human Lu Xun, as well as his recently published Lu Xun's Last Ten Years, have both sparked extensive debate.
Lu Xun left behind over 8 million words of writings in his lifetime, including novels, essays, prose poems, poetry, academic treatises, and collections of ancient texts. Among these, his literary creations account for approximately 1.7 million words, while his academic works and compilations of ancient texts total about 800,000 words. Additionally, he translated, wrote letters, and kept diaries.
This selected edition carefully gathers all of Lu Xun's novels, essays,, poems, academic works, letters, and diaries, providing readers with a comprehensive overview of his oeuvre and enabling a deeper understanding of Lu Xun and the enhancement of their cultural. Lu Xun was the greatest literary and intellectual figure of 20th-century China and also a great revolutionary. His works offer precise descriptions and critiques of the social psychology of various classes and strata in modern China; his spirit embodies the radical revolutionary spirit of oppressed peoples in their pursuit of truth and liberation; his ideas possess not only eternal value but also profound contemporary significance, especially during the current era of economic construction and historical transformation.
For China to stand tall among the nations of the world, it cannot afford to lack Lu Xun's spirit or his literary and intellectual legacy. On September 25, 2002, marking the 121st anniversary of Lu Xun's birth, this collection was published as a tribute to his memory and to express the people's reverence for him.
Lu Xun (1881–1936), whose courtesy name was Yuchao, changed his name to Shuren when he studied in Nanjing in 1898. "Lu" is derived from his mother's surname, and "Xun" was the pen name he adopted in 1918 when he published the novel A Madman's Diary.