Chou (English, City U. of New York-Baruch College) explores the writing of Lu Xun (1881-1936), the pen name of Zhou Shuren, who was part of a group of writers, editors, and professors calling for a new literature for a new culture in China during the 1910s. He wrote the earliest works of fiction and essays for the iconoclastic program, which raised him to the forefront. She discusses renewing a seminal literary figure; nationalism, identity, and other unknowns; the literary afterlife of the queue 1920-22; the life of a poem 1903-36; and the visual materials in the hands of others 1934-36. Annotation 2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
