Lu Xun Quotes


Hope is like a path in the countryside. Originally, there is nothing - but as people walk this way again and again, a path appears.


Citations

Lu, Xun. "My Old Home." Call to Arms, translated by Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang, Foreign Languages Press, 1981, p. 75.

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Lu Xun
Lu Xun
  • Born: September 25, 1881
  • Died: October 19, 1936
  • Nationality: Chinese
  • Profession: Writer, Literary Critic, Essayist

Lu Xun (or Lu Sun, Wade–Giles romanisation: Lu Hsün) was the pen name of Zhou Shuren, a Chinese writer, essayist, poet, and literary critic. He was a leading figure of modern Chinese literature. Writing in Vernacular Chinese and Classical Chinese, he was a short story writer, editor, translator, literary critic, essayist, poet, and designer. In the 1930s, he became the titular head of the League of Left-Wing Writers in Shanghai.