Lu Xun

[loo shoon]

noun

1. Zhou Shuren, 1881–1936, Chinese writer.

Example Sentences

Social media posts from Tuesday and the days before included one of a man donning boards illustrating China's slumping stock market and another dressed up as Lu Xun, a famous author whose works have been popular among Chinese youth as they grapple with historic rates of unemployment.

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The story was written in 1919 by Lu Xun, a Chinese literary giant often compared to Dickens and Orwell.

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But now after years of reading him as part of Communist lore, students are finally "questioning Lu Xun's canonical status" and using his texts in subversive ways, says Professor Sebastian Veg of the School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences in Paris.

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As the space for dissent in China shrinks, the legendary Lu Xun it appears, is finally breaking through.

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Many have taken to social media to compare themselves with a century-old literary figure, Kong Yiji, an unemployed alcoholic scholar from a 1919 story by the author Lu Xun.

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