Lu Xun's Revolution
Author | : Gloria Davies |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 449 |
Release | : 2013-04-08 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780674073944 |
ISBN-13 | : 0674073940 |
Rating | : 4/5 (940 Downloads) |
Download or read book Lu Xun's Revolution written by Gloria Davies and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-08 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recognized as modern China’s preeminent man of letters, Lu Xun (1881–1936) is revered as the nation’s conscience, a writer comparable to Shakespeare or Tolstoy. Gloria Davies’s vivid portrait gives readers a better sense of this influential author by situating the man Mao Zedong hailed as “the sage of modern China” in his turbulent time and place.