By: Old Tales Retold

Old Tales Retold — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:03:10 +0000

After writing of how conservatives blame the May 4th movement and Lu Xun for the Cultural Revolution, fans of “guoxue re” blame Lu Xun for breaking with Confucian traditions, postmodernists blame Lu Xun as an “accomplice of power” for his careful rationality, post-colonialists blame Lu Xun for pandering to Western stereotypes of China through his “A Q” portrait, and liberals blame Lu Xun for being narrow-minded and anti-Western… Qian Liqun remarks, “Here then, is a striking cultural phenomenon. Chinese literary and academic circles of the past decade have been dominated by every possible -ism: yet no matter what -ism was adopted, almost without exception ‘criticizing Lu Xun’ was felt to be a necessary step to promote it.” To paraphrase Qian, if you piss everyone off, you might be onto something.

By: C. Custer

C. Custer — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 06:00:24 +0000

It is a bit bizarre. I have no idea if it’s par for the course or not; I’ve never seen another poll on Lu Xun (or anything similar really)…

By: Ted

Ted — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 05:00:56 +0000

That’s one of the strangest polls I’ve ever seen. Is that par for the course or conservative?

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