The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China: The Complete Fiction of Lu Xun (Penguin Classics)
by Xun, Lu
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Read the Time magazine review about "the most significant Penguin Classic ever published". 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 (Penguin Classics)
- Author
- Xun, Lu
- Book Condition
- UsedVeryGood
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- 1
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- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0140455485
- ISBN 13
- 9780140455489
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Place of Publication
- United Kingdom.
- This edition first published
- 2010-01
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