Lu Xun
Lu Xun (simplified Chinese: 鲁迅; traditional Chinese: 魯迅), (September 25, 1881 – October 19, 1936), was a Chinese writer. His real name is Zhou Shuren (周树人), as Lu Xun is his pen name. He was born in Shaoxing of Zhejiang Province. He had a lot of works, for example, "The True Story of Ah Q", " Medicine", and so on.
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Born | Shaoxing, Zhejiang, China | 25 September 1881||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 19 October 1936 Shanghai, China | (aged 55)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pen name | Lu Xun | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Occupation | writer, critic, essayist | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Period | 1881–1936 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Lu Xun Park in Shanghai has a museum about his life and his tomb.
Lu Xun Media
1918 printed edition of "Diary of a Madman", collection of the Beijing Lu Xun Museum
Lu Xun 11 days before his death. Photograph by Sha Fei.