Lu Xun was born with the name Zhou Zhangshou to an educated, but not wealthy, family. His hometown, Shaoxing, was in a region of China known as Jiangnan. It had long been China's cultural heartland.

Sanwei Private School, the complex where Lu Xun received his education as a teenager, now is part of the Lu Xun Native Place. JIANG DONG/CHINA DAILY Lu Xun was born into a prominent family in 1881.

How does a Western drama master interpret the leading figure in modern Chinese literature, Lu Xun, and his depiction of the bygone China of the 1910s? The European theater giant and drama master from ...

After launching its 2011 theatre program with the Middle Eastern and South Asian folk tales of One Thousand and One Nights, Luminato has capped it off with a stage adaptation of the short stories of ...

Undoubtedly, in the 20th century Lu Xun (1881-1936) and Hu Shih (1891-1962) were two giants in the field of Chinese culture and public knowledge. These two public intellectuals had the deepest ...

Influence. Adam Mickiewicz - collage #9. A portrait of Lu Xun (from Wikimedia) was used. Author: Matej Kaniewski for Culture.pl The introduction of Mickiewicz to Chinese culture is one man’s doing.

"Traditional clay figures are very colorful," said Zhang, the sixth-generation inheritor of the nationally recognized intangible cultural heritage. "But the raw clay allows the form and the spirit of ...

Does the man who is considered a giant of 20th century literature continue to influence the current generation of writers and readers? Chitralekha Basu, Yang Guang and Mei Jia mull the issue. Lu Xun ...