Lu Xun, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Chinese novelist and essayist
Date of Birth: 25-Sep-1881
Place of Birth: Shaoxing, Zhejiang, China
Date of Death: 19-Oct-1936
Profession: writer, poet, translator, Esperantist, literary critic, novelist, essayist, short story writer
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
About Lu Xun
- Lu Xun (Wade–Giles romanisation: Lu Hsün) was the pen name of Zhou Shuren (25 September 1881 – 19 October 1936), a Chinese writer, essayist, poet, and literary critic.
- He was a leading figure of modern Chinese literature.
- Writing in Vernacular Chinese and Classical Chinese, he was a short story writer, editor, translator, literary critic, essayist, poet, and designer.
- In the 1930s, he became the titular head of the League of Left-Wing Writers in Shanghai. Lu Xun was born into a family of landlords and government officials in Shaoxing, Zhejiang; the family's financial resources declined over the course of his youth.
- Lu aspired to take the imperial civil service exam, but due to his family's relative poverty he was forced to attend government-funded schools teaching "Western education." Upon graduation, Lu went to medical school in Japan but later dropped out.
- He became interested in studying literature but was eventually forced to return to China because of his family's lack of funds.
- After returning to China, Lu worked for several years teaching at local secondary schools and colleges before finally finding a job at the Republic of China Ministry of Education. After the 1919 May Fourth Movement, Lu Xun's writing began to exert a substantial influence on Chinese literature and popular culture.
- Like many leaders of the May Fourth Movement, he was primarily a leftist.
- He was highly acclaimed by the Chinese government after 1949, when the People's Republic of China was founded, and Mao Zedong himself was a lifelong admirer of Lu Xun's writing.
- Though sympathetic to socialist ideas, Lu Xun never joined the Communist Party of China.
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