Lu Xun, the pen name of Zhou Shuren, was a Chinese writer who lived from 1881 to 1936 and is regarded as a leading figure of modern Chinese literature, working as a novelist, essayist, literary critic, translator and political commentator known for a sharp, satirical style. Born into a declining family of landlords and scholar-officials in Shaoxing, he initially studied medicine in Japan before abandoning it for literature. In 1918 he pioneered the New Culture Movement by publishing Diary of a Madman, the first Chinese novel written in vernacular rather than literary Chinese, and he became increasingly engaged with leftist politics through the 1920s and 1930s, with his work later canonized in the People's Republic of China owing in part to Mao Zedong's high regard for him.
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Why did Lu Xun give up medicine to write?
He decided that the spiritual health of his countrymen mattered more than their physical health, and that only writing could combat their apathy.
Lu Xun entered the Sendai Provincial Medical School in Japan in 1904, believing that medicine would enable his countrymen to strengthen themselves. Early in 1906, however, he came to the conclusion that their spiritual health was more vital than their physical health, and that only with his pen could he combat their apathy and backwardness.
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25 September 1881
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25 September 1881
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19 October 1936
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19 October 1936
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Lu Xun, the pen name of Zhou Shuren, was a Chinese writer who lived from 1881 to 1936 and is regarded as a leading figure of modern Chinese literature, working as a novelist, essayist, literary critic, translator and political commentator known for a sharp, satirical style.
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Lu Xun (Chinese: 魯迅; pinyin: Lǔ Xùn, [lù ɕŷn]; 25 September 1881-19 October 1936), pen name of Zhou Shuren, born Zhou Zhangshou, was a Chinese writer.
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Lu Xun (Chinese: 魯迅; pinyin: Lǔ Xùn, [lù ɕŷn]; 25 September 1881-19 October 1936), pen name of Zhou Shuren, born Zhou Zhangshou, was a Chinese writer.
In Genre: Poetry, Lead section
A leading figure of modern Chinese literature, he wrote in both vernacular and literary Chinese as a novelist, literary critic, essayist, poet, translator and political commentator, known for his sharp, satirical style and critical reflections on Chinese history and culture.
In Genre: The Novel, Lead section
A leading figure of modern Chinese literature, he wrote in both vernacular and literary Chinese as a novelist, literary critic, essayist, poet, translator and political commentator, known for his sharp, satirical style and critical reflections on Chinese history and culture.
In Genre: Nonfiction Prose, Lead section
A leading figure of modern Chinese literature, he wrote in both vernacular and literary Chinese as a novelist, literary critic, essayist, poet, translator and political commentator, known for his sharp, satirical style and critical reflections on Chinese history and culture.
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