The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China: The Complete Fiction of Lu Xun (平装) 0140455485

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. A major new translation of the complete fiction of the father of modern Chinese literatureIn 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. Lu Xun (1881-1936) studied to be a doctor before turning to writing as the self-appointed literary physician of China's spiritual ills. After his death, he was called "the saint of modern China" by Mao Zedong, who commandeered him in service of the Cultural Revolution. Julia Lovell has translated Lust, Caution by Eileen Chang, Serve the People by Yan Lianke, and I Love Dollars by Zhu Wen. Yiyun Li is the author of A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Guardian First Book Award, and The Vagrants. Acknowledgements Chronology Introduction Further Reading A Note on the Translation A Note on Chinese Names and Pronunciation Nostalgia OUTCRY 　Preface 　Diary of a Madman 　Kong Yiji 　Medicine 　Tomorrow 　A Minor Incident 　Hair 　A Passing Storm 　My Old Home 　The Real Story of Ah-Q 　Dragon Boat Festival 　The White Light 　A Cat among the Rabbits 　A Comedy of Ducks 　Village Opera HESITATION 　New Year's Sacrifice 　Upstairs in the Tavern 　A Happy Family 　Soap 　The Lamp of Eternity 　A Public Example 　Our Learned Friend 　The Loner 　In Memoriam 　Brothers 　The Divorce OLD STORIES RETOLD 　Preface 　Mending Heaven 　Flight to the Moon 　Taming the Floods 　Gathering Ferns 　Forging the Swords 　Leaving the Pass 　Anti-Aggression 　Bringing Back the Dead Notes Afterword

出版社	Penguin Classics
作者	Lu Xun