Lu Xun’s Revolution: Writing in a Time of Violence by Gloria Davies
Eva Shan Chou on a groundbreaking attempt to assess the later work of one of China’s literary greats
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Lu Xun’s Revolution: Writing in a Time of Violence by Gloria Davies
In the period covered by this work, roughly 19 to 1936, the word “revolution” was used in China by both Nationalists and Communists with great frequency: as proper nouns (the former’s National...