Selected Essays of Master Lu Xun

Lu Xun

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Year: 2014
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9781476774930
• Subtopic: Chinese History
• Index: Literature

The Selected Essays of Master Lu Xun collects together his most influential and powerful essays and lectures. Critical of traditional Chinese culture, of the superstition and rigid social mores, and passionate in his argument for reform, his essays from the classic contemplation on Confusion patriarchy "What Is Required of Us as Fathers Today, " to his critique of Chinese identity politics "My Mustache" are exemplary of Chinese thought, society, and politics in a transitional historic period.

Table of contents

• ■ My Views on Chastity
• ■ Random Thoughts(62)—Dying in Bitterness
• ■ What Is Required ofUs as Fathers Today
• ■ Knowledge Is a Crime
• ■Waiting for a Genius— A Lecture Delivered to the Alumni of the Peking Normal University's Middle School on January 17, 1924
• ■ My Moustache
• ■ Thoughts before the Mirror
• ■ Fighters and Flies
• ■ Teachers
• ■ On Deferring Fair Play
• ■ This and That
• ■ “Dangerous Ground”
• ■ Silent China—A Talk Given at the Hongkong Y.M.C.A. on February the Sixteenth
• ■ Literature of a Revolutionary Period —A Talk Given on April 8 at the Whampoa Military Academy
• ■ Literature and Perspiration
• ■ The Evolution of Roughs
• ■ The New Don Quixotes of the Chinese Republic
• ■ On Watching Fights
• ■ In Memory of the Forgotten
• ■ How I Came to Write Stories
• ■ Modern History
• ■ The Chinese People's “Life Belt”
• ■ In Praise of Night
• ■ The Art of the Number-two Clown
• ■ Sand
• ■ The Chinese Imagination
• ■ Shanghai Children
• ■ A Stroll on an Autumn Evening
• ■ The Crisis of the Essay
• ■ Circus Shows
• ■ The Quintessence of Worldly Wisdom
• ■ On the Emancipation of Women
• ■ Fire
• ■ “Peking Type”and “Shanghai Type”
• ■ Two or Three Things Chinese
• ■ On the Adoption of Old Forms
• ■ The Take-over Policy
• ■ Gossip Is a Fearful Thing