The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China: The Complete Fiction of Lu Xun Paperback - 2010
by Lu Xun; Introduction by Julia Lovell; Julia Lovell (Translator)
A major new translation of the complete fiction of the father of modern Chinese literature
In the early twentieth century, as China came up against the realities of the modern world, Lu Xun effected a shift in Chinese letters away from the ornate, obsequious literature of the aristocrats to the plain, expressive literature of the masses. His celebrated short stories assemble a powerfully unsettling portrait of the superstition, poverty, and complacency that he perceived in late imperial China and in the revolutionary republic that toppled the last dynasty in 1911. This volume presents Lu Xun's complete fiction in bracing new translations and includes such famous works as "The Real Story of Ah-q," "Diary of a Madman," and "The Divorce." Together they expose a contradictory legacy of cosmopolitan independence, polemical fractiousness, and anxious patriotism that continues to resonate in Chinese intellectual life today.
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In the early twentieth century, as China came up against the realities of the modern world, Lu Xun effected a shift in Chinese letters away from the ornate, obsequious literature of the aristocrats to the plain, expressive literature of the masses. His celebrated short stories assemble a powerfully unsettling portrait of the superstition, poverty, and complacency that he perceived in late imperial China and in the revolutionary republic that toppled the last dynasty in 1911. This volume presents Lu Xun's complete fiction in bracing new translations and includes such famous works as "The Real Story of Ah-q," "Diary of a Madman," and "The Divorce." Together they expose a contradictory legacy of cosmopolitan independence, polemical fractiousness, and anxious patriotism that continues to resonate in Chinese intellectual life today.
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- Title The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China: The Complete Fiction of Lu Xun
- Author Lu Xun; Introduction by Julia Lovell; Julia Lovell (Translator)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 448
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group, United Kingdom.
- Date 2010-01-26
- Features Bibliography, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780140455489 / 0140455485
- Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 7.78 x 5.18 x 0.82 in (19.76 x 13.16 x 2.08 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Short stories, China - Social life and customs
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Media reviews
-Time
"Julia Lovell and Penguin have done Chinese modern literature a great service in bringing this passionate, witty and bleakly nostalgic work to what one hopes will be a wider audience. Lovell's introduction is excellent."
-The Times Literary Supplement
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