The Short-Stories of Lu Xun
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"Down with Confucianism!" "We want Mr. S and Mr. D!" These were some of the cries that could be heard in the streets of China on May 4, 1919. This date marked the high point of the student movement known as the May Fourth Movement. Following the humiliation at the Paris Peace Conference after the end of the First World War, Chinese students and intellectuals began to voice their opinions on where they thought their country should be headed. These members of society realized a change was needed in order for China to survive in the changing world. Confucianism, the secular philosophy which the Chinese had followed for centuries, was singled out as the main culprit for the current demise of China.
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- . Following the humiliation at the Paris Peace Conference after the end of the First World War, Chinese students and intellectuals began to voice their opinions on where they thought their country should be headed.
- Out of this movement emerged a new class of intellectual thinkers that had been educated in the West, the most influential of these men were the writers.
- The most famous and influential of the May Fourth writers was Lu Xun. Lu Xun, born Zhou Shuren, was born in 1881 into a gentry family stricken by poverty.
- Lu Xun's early writings were focused on essays in the more formal, traditional Chinese style which he wrote for a variety of literary publications in both Japan and China.
- The most powerful criticism by Li Xun is held for general population of Chinese society.
- This mentality can also be clearly seen in Kong Yiji.
- The second most attacked group by Lu Xun in his writings was the upper-class gentry.
- In Lu Xun's other story 'In the Tavern', we meet the scholar Weifu, who has also been crushed by the Confucian system.
- When Mao Zedong came to power following the Communist Revolution, he praised Lu Xun, hailing him as the 'commander of China's cultural revolution?.
- Perhaps there are still children who haven't eaten men' Save the children
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