The True Story of Ah Q (Bilingual Series on Modern Chinese Literature) - Softcover

Lu, Xun

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9629960443 ISBN 13: 9789629960445

Publisher: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2003

Synopsis

A towering figure in the literary history of twentieth-century China, Lu Xun has exerted immense and continuous influence through his short stories, which remain today as powerful as they were first written. While echoes of these stories can still be heard in the fictional works from both sides of the Taiwan Strait in the eighties and nineties, "The True Story of Ah Q" has long become an intrinsic part of the Chinese vocabulary.

Like many Chinese intellectuals searching for a solution to China's problems, Lu Xun went to Japan to study medicine, a choice he later abandoned for a career in writing, which he considered to be a far more effective weapon to save China. A prolific author of pungent and "dagger-like" essays, Lu Xun is also a tireless translator of Western critical and literary works. His fictional works have been translated into more than twenty languages.

About this title

About the Author:

Gladys Yang and Yang Xianyi are the most distinguished team of Chinese-English translators. Besides Lu Xun, they have also translated many classics of traditional Chinese literature.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 9629960443
• ISBN 13: 9789629960445
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160