Lu Xun on Our Minds: The Post-Socialist Reappraisal; Chou,Memory, Violence, Queues: Lu Xun Interprets China; Davies,Lu Xun's Revolution: Writing in a Time of Violence; Cheng,Literary Remains: Death, Trauma, and Lu Xun's Refusal to Mourn

Abstract

That American academic publishers within a short time have put out three monographs this substantial on Lu Xun (1881–1936), often referred to as the founder of modern Chinese literature, is indicative of a new enthusiasm for Lu Xun in the United States and elsewhere in the West. In Japan, South Korea, and of course the People's Republic of China, the study of Lu Xun has been an academic enterprise of considerable standing for some time already. Not that American scholars have failed to make substantial contributions to Lu Xun studies in the past, but such contributions have been relatively far between. Fortunately, there is little overlap between these three exciting new studies.