Selected Essays of Lu Xun - New Curriculum Standard Reading Series

Author: Lu Xun
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Publish Date: 2003-09-01
Features: In Lu Xun's creative career, essays were the field where he devoted the most effort and achieved the most. Lu Xun's essays contained a great variety of topics. There are two main characteristics in terms of content: , they reflect Chinese society with considerable depth and breadth, allowing people to clearly see the historical appearance of modern and contemporary China. If viewed individually, his essays often comment on specific, small, and ordinary matters, but when compiled together, they form a complete society. Therefore, his essays are also highly general and representative. Second, Lu Xun was concerned with the reform of Chinese national character throughout his life, and this work was mainly accomplished through his essays.