The readings of Lu Xun: a modern great
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AN exhibition featuring China’s great modern writer, Lu Xun, opened during the Qingming Festival. It’s a joint effort between Lu Xun museums in Shanghai and Beijing.
The exhibition chronicles the “reading life of Lu Xun” from his teenage years to being a professional writer and editor.
More than 300 pictures and 60 sets of books, manuscripts and letters of Lu are on display at Shanghai Lu Xun Museum through the end of April.
Lu Xun (1881-1936) was the pen name of Zhou Shuren, a leading figure of modern Chinese literature. Writing in vernacular Chinese as well as classical Chinese, Lu was a short story writer, poet, translator and editor.
In the 1930s, he became the titular head of the League of Left-Wing Writers in Shanghai. He was also an important critic known for his sharp and unique essays on the historic traditions and modern conditions of China.
Lu, an ardent reader, had a personal collection of more than 13,000 books.
Records at the exhibition show Lu must have read more than 4,000 books and left more than
9,000 notebooks of reading notes.
His favorite was nikolai Gogol’s “Dead Souls,” which he was reading even on the day of his death.
Date: Through April 25, 9am-5pm
Venue: Shanghai Lu Xun Museum
Address: 200 Tian’ai Rd
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