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Title: Selected Stories by Lu Hsun, Hsun Lu, Xun Lu, Lu Hsun ISBN: 0-393-00848-7 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: August, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: China's Cultural Doctor
Comment: After studying to become a doctor in a Western-style medical school in Nanjing in the 1910s, Lu Xun decided that the real diseases afflicting China were not physiological, but sociological. Thus, in order to truly work toward the health of the nation, he decided to diagnose the nation's maladies as an author rather than a physician. Unlike most of his contemporaries, he took the radical stance that the source of China's social and economic woes was the very framework of Chinese culture itself, in the Confucian value system and the ancient hierarchy of social allegiance. In stories like "A Madman's Diary" (his first story, published initially in the magazine New Youth), he exposed the reality underlying the polished politeness of Chinese society, that the system forced people to consume one another and work toward each other's downfall.
Most of his stories are metaphorical, requiring a decent background in modern Chinese history and some ability for literary analysis. I'm not even close to a complete understanding of many of them, but the moments of insight these stories have given me into Chinese history (and into my own life) have been among the most pleasurable moments of my life. This book is indispensible for anyone who wishes to understand modern China; Lu is perhaps the greatest Chinese author of the last two centuries.
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Title: China to 1850: A Short History by Charles O. Hucker ISBN: 0804709580 Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr Pub. Date: March, 1978 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy by Philip J. Ivanhoe, Bryan W. Van Norden ISBN: 1889119091 Publisher: Seven Bridges Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Hungry Ghosts : Mao's Secret Famine by Jasper Becker ISBN: 0805056688 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: 15 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by JUNG CHANG ISBN: 0385425473 Publisher: Anglophone Sa Pub. Date: 03 October, 1992 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell : A Facsimile in Full Color by William Blake ISBN: 0486281221 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 September, 1994 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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