Lu Xun's Six Lectures - (Revised and Expanded Edition)

Author: Guo Yuangbao
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Publishing Date: 2007-01-01
Features: "Six Lectures on Lu Xun" is basically written by the author during his time 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 a few revisions, and submitted the manuscript to Shanghai Sanlian Press. After the book was published in 2000, many friends suggested revisions. Some of the mediocre parts were even suggested to be deleted. The author almost took up the task a few times, but he never imagined that revising his own articles would be so difficult—it seemed that it required the courage to perform a surgical procedure on one's own bones. However, as he was 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 the new and old articles clearly separated. Revising the old works over and over again made them almost indistinguishable from the newly written ones. Not only was it disrespectful to history, but even to attack yesterday's self with today's standards—who could guarantee that it would necessarily be a wise decision?