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...recent publication, as a Penguin Classic, of The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China. It's a work that has nothing to do with introducing an up-and-coming writer, but rather seeks to widen appreciation of the long-dead Lu Xun - the pen name of Zhou Shuren, who succumbed to tuberculosis in 1936 at the age of 55. (Read "China's Troubled Coming-Out at Book Fair...
...Xun was a towering figure in Chinese letters who deserves to be much more widely read outside his homeland. This affordable volume comprises, over 416 pages, his complete fiction. Julia Lovell's are arguably the most accessible translations yet of such famous stories as "The Divorce," "New Year's Sacrifice" and the eponymous tale of Ah-Q (an opportunistic, inept sometime participant in the 1911 Revolution). Together, they give Lu Xun his best shot to date of achieving renown beyond the Chinese world. If it succeeds in this, the book could be considered the most significant Penguin Classic ever published...
...game and always challenging us and encouraging us to look at things from a different perspective and understand different views of a culture. I can definitely see her being tenured in the not too distant future.” Another one of her students, Chemistry concentrator Xun Zhou ’10, who decided to take the junior tutorial in African and African American Studies after being inspired by Fullwiley’s hands on teaching tactics, echoes Branches sentiments. “She’s incredibly intelligent and a wonderful mentor. She’s also been very...
...Zhang has brought plenty of pop sensibility to his calling. Aside from abridging traditional storylines, he has experimented with modern plots, adapting a short story by early 20th century writer Lu Xun. The singing is also faster and the traditionally empty stage is now filled with backdrops and props (classical Kunqu required audiences to simply imagine the scene according to cues in the lyrics). A new breed of younger artists has also been cast in plum roles, which by tradition were always reserved for veteran performers. Prominent among the fresh faces is Zhang himself. The onetime rapper played Emperor Minghuang...
...equal measure as I read Hannah Beech's unsettling account of the Chinese government's persecution of legal activist Chen Guangcheng [Sept. 4]. Disgust threatened to turn to despair. What hope is there for individuals like Chen, outgunned and outnumbered? But then I recalled the words that novelist Lu Xun wrote 85 years ago at the end of his short story My Old Home: "Hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said not to exist. It is just like roads across the earth. For actually the earth had no roads to begin with, but when many...