THE STORYO OF AH Q SERIES

Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. Closely around the protagonist Ah Q, the book takes the activities of Ah Q as its only clue to develop the plots and write out his short and tragic life. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Adhering to the national tradition of Chinese novel, The True Story of Ah Q composes the whole content in form of biography. Together they expose a contradictory legacy of cosmopolitan independence, polemical fractiousness, and anxious patriotism that continues to resonate in Chinese intellectual life today.įor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. This volume presents Lu Xun’s complete fiction in bracing new translations and includes such famous works as The Real Story of Ah-q, Diary of a Madman, and The Divorce. His celebrated short stories assemble a powerfully unsettling portrait of the superstition, poverty, and complacency that he perceived in late imperial China and in the revolutionary republic that toppled the last dynasty in 1911. The tale of Ah Q can be interpreted as a story of many revolutionaries in the country of China who stood and fought forces and were arrested by the government. In the early twentieth century, as China came up against the realities of the modern world, Lu Xun effected a shift in Chinese letters away from the ornate, obsequious literature of the aristocrats to the plain, expressive literature of the masses. 1 It is based on the 1921-22 novella of the same name by Lu Xun. It was entered into the 1982 Cannes Film Festival. Lu Xun is one of the founding figures of modern Chiense literature. The True Story of Ah Q ( simplified Chinese: Q traditional Chinese: Q pinyin: Q zhng zhun) is a 1981 Chinese drama film directed by Fan Cen. The acclaimed translation of the complete fiction of the father of modern Chinese literature The True Story of Ah Q first appeared as a nine-part series, a-chapter-a-week, in the Literary Pages of the Morning News or Chenbao, published from Beiping.

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