Lu Xun ( 鲁迅 )

leading figure of Chinese literature

Lidia Sha
Basic information
 Real name:Zhou Zhang Shou(later change
into Zhou Shu Ren)
 Date of birth:25/9/1881
 Place of birth: Shaoxing Fu, Zhejiang
Province
 Date of death:19/10/1936
 a Chinese writer, literary critic, lecturer
 leading figure -modern Chinese literature
 titular head - League of Left-Wing Writers in
Shanghai ---republican-era China
 a short story writer, editor, translator, literary
critic, essayist, poet, and designer
 speak Chinese, classical Chinese , Japanese,
German etc.
 A timeline of Lu Xun's life
1898 1899 1902
1881
• study-Jiangnan Naval • Transferred to the • Graduated-
• born-Shaoxing,
Academy in Nanjing, School of Mines and China --
Zhejiang
Jiangsu province. Railways in Nanjing. Japan -
province.
government
1906 scholarship
• Abandoned medical studies - 1904
1911 • - study
return Shaoxing - an arranged • Left Tokyo --
• his first short Japanese.
marriage medical
story, Nostalgia. school in rural
• returned to Tokyo- his
brother Zhou Zuoren. Sendai.

1918 1925
• Began a 1929
• Published -first 1936
love affair - • Xu
vernacular short • Died --
Xu Guangping
story Diary of a Shanghai.
Guangping, gave birth to
Madman under
--his former their only son,
the pseudonym
student. Zhou Haiying.
Lu Xun
Important
Events
1.Naval academy to • Intense turning
school of Mine point
• Affected his minds
2.Went to Japanese to • Show her decision
study medicine to save people
and nation from
3.Came back to China the disaster
and became a writer
Some interesting things

Extremely liked to eat You are Lu Xun’s grandson!

sweet food. 1. Lu xun’s grandson, Xu
1.Knowed by the Ling Fei, -people think
owner of the candy his writing ability good-
store in Nanjing Lu xun’s grandson
2.Eat up all the sweets 2. attend the army-
brought back by his assigned into Health
wife.(even didn’t leave centre- Luxun learned
some for his son). medicine
Conclusion
• A great writer of Chinese
literacy in 20th century- big
effect on later Chinese
literacy
• Patriots – single-mindly for
the country and people
• A good thinker-observe
people’s dilemma
• Important participant in the
May 4th New Culture
Movement
Thank you for listening

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