Ban the Writer Lu Xun!

Ban the Writer Lu Xun!

Wolfgang Kubin - Professor of Sinology, Bonn University

Wednesday, April 1, 2009 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Room 312, Hall Of Graduate Studies (HGS) See map
320 York Street
New Haven, CT 6511

Lu Xun (1881-1936) is a misleading and “dangerous’ thinker. If we read his writings without paying too much attention to its concrete historical background, then we very often get the impression that he is talking about today’s Chinese society. This might be the reason why last year some of his essays were removed from schoolbooks on the mainland. His “Memory of Liu Hezhen” for instance reads today as if written after June 4th. The lecture tries to show why the writings of Lu Xun do not fit into the policy of China any more.

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China, Taiwan, Hong Kong