Episode 3 | Lu Xun and the Birth of Modern Chinese Litereature | The Real Story of Ah-Q by Lu Xun

The Joy of Serious Literature

Lu Xun was China's first great modern writer. He invented the Chinese short story. He revolutionized the Chinese language. He diagnosed the vast array of social and spiritual problems that had led China, in the early 20th century, to the brink of ruin. Above ad beyond all of his innumerable essays and stories, the Real Story of Ah-Q is widely regarded to be Lu Xun's finest work. Set during the dying days of the Qing Dynasty, the Real Story of Ah-Q tells of the numerous victories, triumphs, and heroics of a drunken, moronic peasant laborer in a rural in Chinese village, and in doing so becomes one of literature's greatest works of civilizational satire. Also if you have any questions, comments, concerns, suggestions, or denunciations you'd like to share with the man behind the Joy of Serious Literature, he can now be reached at [e-mail].