Scream - (High School Part) (Revised Edition)

Author: Lu Xun
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Publish Date: 1979-12-01
Features: Najiao (A Call to Arms) is imbued with abundant anti-feudal passion. It "comforts the fierce warriors who gallop in solitude and emboldens them to press forward." Najiao is a collection of short stories written by Lu Xun from 1918 to 1922. At that time, the spirit of the May Fourth Revolution was at its peak. The author wrote the stories with the intention of depicting "the unfortunate people in a sick society," "exposing the suffering to draw attention to healing," and "shouting for the New Culture Movement." The works truthfully portray the social life from the Xinhai Revolution to the May Fourth Movement, revealing various deep-seated social contradictions, offering a profound critique and complete negation of the feudal system and outdated traditional concepts, and expressing a strong sense of national survival and a fervent desire for social change.
Lu Xun (1881–1936) was a writer, thinker, and revolutionary. His original name was Zhou Zhangshou, styled Yucai, later changed to Shuren, and was from Shaoxing, Zhejiang. He was born into a declining scholar-official family. Lu Xun began using the pen name "Lu Xun" in 1918 when he published A Madman's Diary. In 1898, he studied in Nanjing, and in 1902, he went to Japan for medical studies. Later, he realized that curing the numb spirit of the nation was more important than treating physical ailments, so he switched to promoting literary movements. In October 1927, he settled in Shanghai and engaged in literary writing, participating in the organization of the Chinese Left-Wing Writers League, becoming the actual leader and banner of the Chinese Left-Wing cultural movement. In the struggle against the Nationalist Party's cultural "encirclement," he became a great figure in China's cultural revolution. Najiao is a collection of short stories written by Lu Xun from 1918 to 1922. At that time, the spirit of the May Fourth Revolution was at its peak. The author wrote the stories with the intention of depicting "the unfortunate people in a sick society," "exposing the suffering to draw attention to healing," and "shouting for the New Culture Movement." The works truthfully portray the social life from the Xinhai Revolution to the May Fourth Movement, revealing various deep-seated social contradictions, offering a profound critique and complete negation of the feudal system and outdated traditional concepts, and expressing a strong sense of national survival and a fervent desire for social change.