China: A sketch of the writer and social critic Lu Xun (25 September 1881 - 19 October 1936) at Shanghai by Situ Qiao (1902-1958), 1928. Lu Xun (or Lu Hsun) was the pen name of Zhou Shuren (Chou Shu-jen), and was one of the major Chinese writers of the 20th century. Considered by many to be the founder of modern Chinese literature, he wrote in baihua (the vernacular) as well as classical Chinese. Lu Xun was a short story writer, editor, translator, critic, essayist and poet. In the 1930s he became the titular head of the Chinese League of the Left-Wing Writers in Shanghai.

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