Lu Xun "Hometown" - 鲁迅《故乡》: in simplified and traditional Chinese, with pinyin and other useful information for self-study

By Lu Xun and Xiaoqin Dr. Su

The books in the collection »Read Chinese with Ms. Su« are aimed at advanced Chinese learners who are in the process of reading longer texts on their own.

In the autobiographical narrative Hometown, the great Chinese writer Lu Xun created two literary figures, namely the farmer’s so

• Language: English
• Publisher: RUDI Publishing House
• Release date: Sep 7, 2018
• ISBN: 9783946611233

Lu Xun

Lu Xun (鲁迅) was born in 1881 into a family of scholars and civil servants in Shaoxing, Eastern China. He died in Shanghai in 1936, In his early childhood, he enjoyed an education in the Chinese classics, but wrote in a near-colloquial style, which left a lasting mark on modern Chinese. His texts are considered to be canonical and have been included in the textbooks for Chinese in the primary and secondary schools in mainland China. He was a ruthless critic of ancient China. His writings are still up-to-date and are also used to comment on or criticize events in China today.

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