Facts about Lu Xun

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   During his lifetime, Lu Xun wrote over 700 essays and articles that critiqued Chinese society, making him one of the most prolific social commentators of the early twentieth century.

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   Bitter attacks from nationalist critics forced Lu Xun to flee China in 1927, spending his final decade under Japanese surveillance in Shanghai while continuing to write prolifically.

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   Lu Xun's essay collection Call to Arms, published in 1923, contained 14 stories that collectively pioneered modern vernacular Chinese fiction as a literary movement.

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   Zhou Shuren, Lu Xun's birth name, studied medicine in Japan from 1904 to 1906 before abandoning the field to pursue literature.

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   In 1918, Lu Xun published The True Story of Ah Q, a novella that became one of modern Chinese literature's most influential works.

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