ZhouLuXun'soriginalname,isoneofChina'swell-knownwriter,borninZhejiangin1881,when21-year-oldtogotoJapantostudyandstartedwritinginMay1909,October19,1936Shanghaidied...

　　Short-storywriter,essayist,critic,andliterarytheoristwhoisconsideredtobeoneofthegreatestfiguresin20th-centuryChineseliterature.LuXun,hailedas"commanderofChina'sculturalrevolution"byMaoZedong,istypicallyregardedasthemostinfluentialChinesewriterwhowasassociatedwiththeMayFourthMovement.LuXun'sacclaimedshortstoriesappearedinthreecollectionsbetweentheyears1923and1935.Healsoproducedsixteenvolumesofessays,reminiscences,prosepoetry,historicaltales,somesixtyclassical-stylepoems,andadozenvolumesofscholarlyresearch,andnumeroustranslations.