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Lu Xun

1881 – 1936 · China · Literature

Founded modern Chinese literature and diagnosed a nation in vernacular prose.

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Talks and interviews

Continuity of ideas

Who shaped Lu Xun, and who they shaped

Inherited from1

  • Cao Xueqin

    1715 – 1763 · Literature

    Lu Xun's history of Chinese fiction places Dream of the Red Chamber as the vernacular novel's summit.

Passed the work to1

  • Mo Yan

    1955 · Literature

    Lu Xun's village satire is the Chinese vernacular tradition Mo Yan inherits.

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