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Xu Zidong Rereads Lu Xun
He recognized the maladies of Chinese society
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Xu Zidong: Rereading Lu Xun Means Rereading Ourselves 1. The Ghost of “Chastity and Martyrdom” Weighing on Women | My Views on Chastity, Part 1 2. Why Did Lu Xun Discuss Female Chastity? | My Views on Chastity, Part 2 3. Where Should People Go When Their Age Is Changing? | What Happens After Nora Leaves Home and How We Should Be Fathers Now 4. Become Soil for Genius, Not a Servant of Destruction | Before the Appearance of Genius and Other Essays 5. From a Slender-Waisted Wasp to the Human Predicament | Idle Talk at the End of Spring 6. “Better a Dog in Peace” Is Sadder Than Being Born into Chaos | Random Thoughts Under the Lamp 7. The Shackles of Concealment and Deception | On Facing Things with Open Eyes 8. Should a “Drowning Dog” Be Beaten? | On Deferring Fair Play 9. Sincerely Admitting One’s Insincerity | Written After The Grave 10. Is Rejecting the “National Essence” an Overcorrection? | Preface to Hot Wind and Random Thoughts 35 11. The Impasse Between the “Singular Individual” and the Mediocre Crowd | Random Thoughts 38 12. What Should We Leave to the “Age of Our Descendants”? | Random Thoughts 40, 42, and Others 13. When Facing the “Other,” Do Not Rush Online in Hatred | Random Thoughts 56, 66, and Others 14. Should We Break the “Iron House” to Wake Its Sleepers? | Preface to Call to Arms 15. A Heroic “Madman” or a Patient in the Crowd? | A Madman’s Diary, Part 1 16. Reading “Cannibalism” and the Fate of Its Victims Between the Lines | A Madman’s Diary, Part 2 17. A Blood-Soaked Bun: Swallowing the Bitter Fruit of Deception | Medicine 18. A Century Later, This “Small Incident” Still Echoes | A Small Incident 19. Looking Up, He Finds the “Bean-Curd Beauty” Utterly Changed | My Old Home 20. Two Stinging Slaps: Ah Q and His Method of Spiritual Victory | The True Story of Ah Q, Part 1 21. Behind Self-Proclaimed “Victory” Lies Homeless Humiliation | The True Story of Ah Q, Part 2 22. From National Character to Spiritual Predicament: The Critical History of Ah Q | Part 3 23. Who Was Responsible for Xianglin’s Wife’s Death? | New Year’s Sacrifice 24. Hypocritical Moralism and Unconscious Desire | Soap 25. Who Was to Blame for Juansheng and Zijun’s Tragic Love? | Regret for the Past 26. Two Conversations Between Lu Xun and Himself | In the Wine Shop and The Misanthrope 27. A Farewell Poem Written in Despair | The Shadow’s Leave-Taking 28. Can Forgotten Wrongs Ever Receive an Apology? | Revenge II, The Kite, and Others 29. Despair Is as False as Hope | Hope, The Tremor of Degradation, and Others 30. Why Does Telling the Truth Invite a Collective Beating? | Soapbox 31. Ahead on the Road: Wildflowers or a Graveyard? | The Passerby, Inscription, and Others 32. Cats on the Roof, People at War in Print | Dogs, Cats, and Mice 33. A Sorrowful Memory and a Spiritual “Patricide” | Father’s Illness 34. For the Nation or for Scholarship? | Mr. Fujino 35. Lu Xun and Zhou Zuoren: Two Contrasting Portraits | The Brothers’ Estrangement, Part 1 36. The Past Two Literary Giants Never Discussed | The Brothers’ Estrangement, Part 2 37. Should Young People Read More Chinese Books or Foreign Books? | Books Young People Must Read 38. Seeing Changes in the Chinese Mind Through Small, Sudden Thoughts | Sudden Thoughts I–IV and Other Essays 39. The “Look of Death”: The Body May Lie Flat, but the Spirit Will Not Surrender | Sudden Thoughts V–VI 40. Sheep Like Beasts and Beasts Like Sheep | Sudden Thoughts VII–IX and Others 41. “Answering False Accusations”: A Keyword Throughout Lu Xun’s Life | Sudden Thoughts X–XI 42. Lu Xun, Always Standing with the Young | This and That, Mentors, and Others 43. Amid Bloodshed, True Braves Press Forward in Anger | In Memory of Miss Liu Hezhen 44. Be a Principled “Willing Ox” | I Still Cannot Let It Go, The Origins of Ah Q, and Others 45. Battle Song and Elegy: What Kind of Literature Do We Need? | Letters from Xiamen and Others 46. Lu Xun and Hong Kong: At the Beginning of Its New Literary History | Silent China and Others 47. Linking Past and Present: Lu Xun’s View of History in One Lecture | Wei-Jin Manner and the Relations Among Literature, Medicine, and Wine 48. Absurd and Profound: Lu Xun’s Collection of Aphorisms | Brief Reflections 49. Lu Xun Under “Siege” by a Younger Generation | Haze Through Drunken Eyes and Others 50. Lu Xun and Liang Shiqiu: A Polemic with More Agreement Than Dispute | “Hard Translation” and the “Class Nature of Literature” 51. What Lu Xun Regretted Was the Barrier Between Human Hearts | Preface to the Russian Ah Q and Autobiographical Sketch 52. Fighting on Three Fronts: Lu Xun on Proletarian Revolutionary Literature | The State of Literature in Dark China and Others 53. Refuting “Nationalist Literature”: A Polemic Lu Xun Won Decisively 54. Grief That Cannot Be Stilled: Lu Xun, Rou Shi, and the Five Martyrs of the League | In Memory for the Sake of Forgetting 55. The “Third Type”: Can Art Really Transcend Class? | On the “Third Type” and Again on the “Third Type” 56. How Do the Humiliated and Injured Humiliate and Injure Others? | Written in Passing and Others 57. Lu Xun’s Columns: From Satire to Humor, and Humor to Seriousness 58. Lu Xun, Qu Qiubai, and Hu Shi: A Controversy Sparked by a Column 59. Concern for the Nation and Portraits of Ordinary People in “Idle Talk” 60. Scholars, Officials, Merchants, and Regional Culture: North and South in Lu Xun’s Eyes 61. Lu Xun on Ruan Lingyu’s Death: Death Is Not the Tragedy—Fear Public Opinion | On “Public Opinion Is Fearsome” 62. “Whips” from Comrades: Lu Xun and the Dissolution of the League of Left-Wing Writers 63. The “Two Slogans” Dispute: National Defense Literature vs. Mass Literature of the National Revolutionary War 64. A Sincere Finale: What Did Lu Xun Think as Death Approached? | Death 65. The Great Writer Through a Doctor’s Eyes: Lu Xun’s Health in His Final Years 66. He Saw What Remained Constant Amid Change: Lu Xun’s Will and Legacy