Lu Xun: Six Lectures (Revised and Expanded Edition)

Author: Guo Yuangao
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: "Six Lectures on Lu Xun" is basically written by the author when he served as a visiting professor at Korea University in South Korea in 1999, or it could also be called a book of solitude. At that time, he often locked himself in a small room of less than 20 square meters on the back mountain, flipping through the limited copies of Lu Xun's works he carried with him and could borrow from Korea University. Whenever he had insights, he eagerly wrote them down as articles. By the end of the year, he returned to Shanghai, made some minor revisions, and submitted the manuscript to Shanghai Sanlian Press. After the book was published in 2000, many friends suggested revisions. Some of the more mediocre parts even had people suggesting they be deleted. The author almost took up the task several times, but he never imagined that revising his own articles would be so difficult—it seemed to require the courage of a bone-setting operation. However, being no Guan Yu, he had to abandon the plan of making extensive revisions. The original "Six Lectures" had the main text unchanged, but to make it more prominent, some subheadings were moved to the table of contents. The author thought it would be better to keep new and old articles clearly separated. Revising the old works so much that they became almost indistinguishable from newly written ones—not only did it lack respect for history, but even attacking yesterday's self with today's standards—how could anyone guarantee that such an act would be wise?