CIIC:Today's featured article/October 12, 2009
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Lu Xun was born Zhou Shuren on September 25, 1881, in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province. Zhou adopted the pen name Lu Xun in 1918, when he began writing for New Youth magazine.
A great writer and thinker, and the founder of Chinese modern literature, Lu Xun was born into a downfallen scholar-bureaucratic family. As a child, he was educated to read poems and classic books. He often accompanied his mother on visits to his grandma, who lived in the countryside, and those experiences later became material for his novels about rural life. (More ... )
