Lu Xun (September 25, 1881 - October 19, 1936), whose real name was Zhou Shuren, whose original name was Zhang Shou, and whose courtesy name was Hencai. He was famous for his pen name Lu Xun. He was a native of Shaoxing, Zhejiang, and was a modern figure in China. A famous writer, one of the leaders of the New Culture Movement, the founder and pioneer of modern Chinese literature, and a modern Chinese writer and thinker who enjoys a high reputation in the Western world.
Lu Xun’s main achievements include essays, short novels, literature, ideological and social commentary, academic works, natural science works, collation and research of ancient classics, prose, modern prose poetry, old-style poetry, foreign The study of literary and academic translated works and woodblock prints has had a certain impact on the ideological and cultural development of Chinese society after the May 4th Movement. He is famous in the world of literature, especially in the ideological and cultural fields of Korea and Japan. He has an extremely important status and influence and is known as "The writer who occupied the largest territory on the cultural map of East Asia in the twentieth century"
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Lu Xun is also famous for his translations. Of the more than 10 million words of Lu Xun's works, half are translated texts. In the early stage, he mainly translated European and American literature and Japanese literary works, such as Nietzsche, Verne, etc. In the later period, he mainly translated revolutionary literary works of Eastern European literature and Soviet literature. His translation emphasizes fidelity to the original text, and sometimes even the structure of the original sentence is not changed. He is famous for his "hard translation" style. He had hoped to increase the expressive power of complex relationships in Chinese by introducing European-style long sentences. According to statistics, President Lu Xun has translated more than 200 works by nearly a hundred writers from 14 countries.
In addition, there are also "Collected Letters of Lu Xun" and "Diary of Lu Xun".
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